Brooklyn Museum presents Retrospective of Works Created by The Bruce High Quality Foundation

A retrospective of less than 17,000 works created by The Bruce High Quality Foundation—which takes its name from a fictional artist named Bruce High Quality who purportedly perished on 9/11The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001–2013 will include works across a number of mediums, representing the Foundation’s work in subversive and often humorous installation art, painting, photography, sculpture, live performance, video and social sculpture.

The stated mission of The Bruce High Quality Foundation is “to invest the experience of public space with wonder, to resurrect art history from the bowels of despair, and to impregnate the institutions of art with the joy of man’s desiring.” The foundation employs familiar materials and objects in their work, from cars and refrigerators to Play-Doh.

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