The Bass Announces Summer Programs and Zidane Exhibition in Miami Beach
The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach has outlined a full summer schedule featuring a Masisi Radio residency focused on sound, cinema, and performance, a soccer themed viewing event, music and meditation programs, youth art intensives and camps, and the exhibition Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, which remains on view through July 19, 2026.
Masisi Radio Residency Launches Club Sinema at The Bass
The Bass will host Move Your Body: Imagination Club Sinema Film Festival Debut as part of a three part summer residency by Miami based Masisi Radio that centers movement as a form of memory, imagination, and liberation within the museum galleries.
Rooted in the legacy of Black, queer, and trans communities that helped shape disco, house, and global club culture, the residency brings artists, DJs, filmmakers, and performers together within the floor to ceiling installation assume vivid astro focus: XI, which combines sculpture, video, and design into a participatory environment.
The debut of Club Sinema introduces a three part film program on Black queer cinematic practices, including a Miami Shorts Block of emerging and archival works, a feature screening of Looking for Langston by Isaac Julien, and a Music and Movement Cinema Block. Each section includes talkbacks and intermissions to encourage dialogue around cinema as a tool for imagination and future conditions of Black life, with complimentary admission available by RSVP through The Bass website.
Midday Soccer Screenings Connect Exhibition and World Cup Season
As part of its World Cup related programming, The Bass is presenting Midday Matches at the Museum, a late lunch series that streams live soccer matches in the museum from 3 to 5 pm.
Visitors wearing a favorite team jersey receive free museum admission and can view Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, on view through July 19, while watching the matches. Onsite café service offers drink specials during the afternoon screenings, and parking is available nearby at the Collins Park municipal garage, with RSVPs accepted via the museum’s event page.
Workshops, Music Series, and Youth Art Camps Round Out Summer Offerings
The Bass is offering an adult workshop titled Pistoletto’s Mirrors: Reflecting Gaze and Breath, in which participants tour Michelangelo Pistoletto: Mirror of Eternity before engaging in mirror gazing and breathwork exercises designed to encourage creativity, mindfulness, and conversation. Registration details are available through the museum’s program listing.
The museum’s Power Access South Beach Jazz Summer Series features FASE: An Evening of Strings and Percussion, showcasing the Frost Alternative String Ensemble with performers from the University of Miami and the wider South Florida community in a program that spans jazz, rock, bluegrass, R&B, and world music. RSVPs are handled through an Eventbrite page.
For teens, The Bass is organizing a Studio Summer Art Intensive for ages 13 to 18, focused on portfolio preparation in drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, while younger children can enroll in weeklong Summer Art Camps for ages 4 to 12 that emphasize hands on projects across multiple media. Both programs run with optional aftercare, and registration details for the intensive and camps are available on the museum’s Teen Studio page and Summer Art Camps page, with scholarships described on a dedicated scholarship program page for families experiencing economic hardship or for students with disabilities.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Aligns with World Cup Season
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait remains on view at The Bass through July 19, 2026, coinciding with FIFA World Cup 2026 matches and fan events taking place in host city Miami.
The two channel film installation by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno focuses on French soccer player Zinédine Zidane and reconsiders portraiture through the lens of contemporary spectacle by presenting two simultaneous large scale projections.
One projection combines live television broadcast footage into a composed, cinematic edit, while the other presents unembellished close ups drawn from a dedicated camera, emphasizing differing modes of image making. Further information on the presentation is available on The Bass website.