Is Basketball: The Next World’s Game?
Friday, March 20, 2—3:30 PM

From neighborhood courts to the global stage, basketball has inspired creativity and shaped culture for decades. Join some of today’s leading cultural critics, poets, and artists as they reflect on the game’s influence and cultural footprint, featuring Hanif Abdurraqib (Poet; Cultural Critic), Felandus Thames (Artist, Get in the Game), Alexandre Arrechea (Artist, Get in the Game), Kelefa Sanneh (Staff Writer, The New Yorker), and our very own local artist and frequent collaborator Najja Moon (Artist; General Manager and Co-founder, The Miami VIS—a parafictional women’s basketball franchise).

The session, Basketball: The Next World’s Game?, is part of GAME TIME, a new program at the convergence of art and sports, making its debut on March 19—20, 2026, during the opening weekend of Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).  

Coinciding with the Miami Open and leading up to the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix and the FIFA World Cup, GAME TIME offers an opportunity to explore how competition, self-determination, and style play out in the art world and beyond. The talks and sessions feature artists, curators, and athletes such as Desmond Howard, Cheryl Pope, and Hank Willis Thomas sharing the same playing field. This also marks the first major museum-led conference examining cultural production in and around sports.

Complimentary access to GAME TIME for Commissioner members is made possible through a special partnership with Cultural Counsel, focusing on uplifting local artists like Najja Moon and The Miami VIS—her incredible speculative intervention that combines world-building and hoop dreams.

Najja Moon at Uncommon Routes basketball court in Legion Park, Miami. Photograph by and courtesy of Allen Seraphin for Burnaway, written by Isabella Marie Garcia