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The Last Brucennial: The Interview

"The Last Brucennial," the fifth and final installment of New York artist collective Bruce High Quality Foundation's idiosyncratic biennial, opens this Thursday evening (Mar. 7-Apr. 4). Far from its first location beneath the JMZ subway line in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the Last Brucennial is being held at 837 Washington Street, an "industrial-chic" commercial complex neighboring the High Line, the Standard Hotel and the site of the future Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Given the Foundation's mission to "to foster an alternative to everything" (most recently embodied in their "willfully non-accredited art school," Bruce High Quality Foundation University) and its signature mixture of derision and indulgence of art world dynamics, the potential of this location for statement-making is surely not lost on BHQF.

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