Today Miami Beach is one of the most “broadcasted” locations in the world, but 100 years ago the age of broadcasting was just becoming a reality. This exhibition explores the first consumer mass media device and how it helped promote and shape Miami Beach’s early development. As radio proliferated through the first half of the […]

January 2024 — July 2024 Hatred is perhaps the oldest of human emotions, forming the basis of much of our recorded history since the biblical story of Cain and Abel. One particularly virulent form of hatred stands out for its uncanny ability to adapt to varying cultures and historical conditions: antisemitism, the hatred of the Jews. […]

The Big World, focusing on depictions of the land in The Wolfsonian's collection, challenges expectations of landscape art as it goes beyond bucolic scenes to reveal changing vistas of the modern era rendered in paintings, the decorative arts, and even a grand piano. The exhibition charts a course through the end of the 19th century and […]

April 25–September 29, 2024 The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue As the popularity of cigars boomed on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 19th century, manufacturers began marketing a new device to support this habit: cutters designed to snip off the end of a cigar before lighting. Not just utilitarian tools, many cigar […]

February 21–May 26, 2024 The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue Beginning in the 1920s, restaurant and nightclub owners used all the tools of modern graphic design—vibrant colors, bold lettering, and striking images—to promote their businesses on printed materials. These establishments often commissioned commercial artists to create alluring menu covers that drew in customers by teasing […]

Nam June Paik (b. 1932, Seoul; d. 2006, Miami Beach) was a pioneer in the development of electronic moving images and digitized compositions as a form of creative expression. Credited with originating the term “electronic superhighway” in 1974, Paik’s complex works demonstrated enormous prescience for the influence and proliferation of digital media as an artistic […]

MARCH 16, 2023 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 On Thursday, March 16, 2023, The Bass unveils Carola Bravo’s Between Absence and Presence, the third cycle winner of the museum’s New Monuments open artist call, a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through the museum’s Knight Art Commissions Program. Installed in Collins Park, Bravo’s temporary, […]

DEC 4,2023-JUN 23,2024 The Bass announces Anne Duk Hee Jordan: I will always weather with you, opening December 4, 2023 and on view through June 23, 2024, a new large-scale multisensory exhibition that uses technology to examine the perseverance of life on Earth against the increasing challenges of climate change. Korean-born and based in Berlin, artist […]

DEC 4, 2023 – JUN 23, 2024 Beginning Monday December 4, 2023, and on view through June 23, 2024, The Bass Museum of Art presents Etel Adnan: Painting into Space, featuring the premiere of a monumental wall mural set alongside additional works by the Lebanese-born artist. This exhibition will focus on the intersections of painting and […]