GAME TIME: Session 2-Dialogues on Art, Sports and Headlines
Jun 26, 2026
From: Noon to 11:59 PM
Artists, athletes, journalists and cultural leaders gather at Pérez Art Museum Miami for a daylong program examining the relationship between sports, art and public discourse. GAME TIME: Session 2-Dialogues on Art, Sports and Headlines takes place Friday, June 26, coinciding with Miami’s role as a host city for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches. The program builds on GAME TIME’s first session by continuing the conversation around athletic culture, media, identity and the ways sport shapes shared cultural memory.
Session 2 participants include Olympic gold medalist and activist Tommie Smith; The New Yorker staff writer Kelefa Sanneh; The Miami Herald sports and culture writer C. Isaiah Smalls II; Knight Foundation Director Patton Hindle; PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans; Studio Kër Creative Director Michael Bennett; artist Glenn Kaino; and Damion L. Thomas, Supervisory Museum Curator of Professional Sports, Amateur Sports, and Leisure Activities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The program is presented in connection with PAMM’s exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, which explores how athletic performance and artistic expression intersect. Featuring more than 100 works by artists from around the world alongside historic sports memorabilia, the exhibition considers sport as a site of resilience, spectacle, identity and collective imagination.