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Art The Bruce High Quality Foundation: The Retrospective

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The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and DIY spirit. The title is a bit misleading, as the current Retrospective does not feature work from the collective's past projects, which include a photographic staging of Théodore Géricault's canonical painting The Raft of the Medusa, and a Bed Stuy-themed interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. Instead, the exhibition unearths work from the estate of Bruce High Quality — the dubious "late sculptor" around whom much of the collective's work is centered — and celebrates the release of a new book, The Bruce High Quality Foundation Foundation & Other Ideas.

– Thomas Seely

Note: The Brucennial opens Thursday, May 1 (7-10pm) at the Bruce High Quality Foundation (1100 Broadway, in Brooklyn) with work from more than 70 artists.

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