As the coronavirus pandemic began to rage early this year, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach had a problem. A planned exhibition—Abraham Cruzvillegas’s “Hi, how are you, Gonzo?”—was interactive. “It was very touchy and germy,” said Silvia Karman Cubiñá, the museum’s executive director and chief curator. “It was not possible.”
But this month, the museum began erecting an installation by Mr. Cruzvillegas that fits perfectly with pandemic times. “Agua Dulce” fills nearly 14,000 square feet of space in the park surrounding…