Animal New York reports that this year’s edition of the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Brucennial will be the collective’s last, as it shifts its attention to its University operations and other projects.  The Brucennial, set to open on March 7th, will also focus solely on women artists.  “We’ve grown this show big enough to command an audience of thousands and thousands of visitors, not to mention media attention,” the organization said in an e-mail statement. “So for The Last Brucennial, we will spotlight all women artists.” (more…)

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Con te Partiro (2009), via Brooklyn Museum

Shrouded in anonymity, the Bruce High Quality Foundation has made a career for themselves out of playful irreverence.  Rising out of the post-9/11 New York art scene, the anonymous collective has launched a campaign of physical aggression against public installations (Public Art Tackle), initiated their own free education classes, staged socio-politically charged morality plays on gentrification, all under the guise of a production of the Broadway musical Cats, all alongside a number of pieces and installations that embrace the juxtaposition of art history, pop culture and contemporary society to “invest the experience of public space with wonder.”

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Ode to Joy (2001–2013) (Installation View), via Brooklyn Museum (more…)