Purple Magazine
— S/S 2010 issue 13
Bruce High Quality
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The Ruin of Bruce High Quality (just presented in Art Basel Miami), 2009. Courtesy of The BHQ Foundation
interview by PARINAZ MAGADASSI
THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY Foundation is an artists’ collective based in New York City, comprised mainly of young men in their mid-to-late twenties. Their breadth of work is already quite large, but these artists keep their identities under wraps, as if toying with a highly evocative anonymity and humility.
PARINAZ MAGADASSI — What is BHQF, and when was it established?
BHQF — The foundation was formed in 2001. We’re not a membership organization, and the names, ages, and sex of our staff and the many people we collaborate with is not something we like to talk about.
PARINAZ MAGADASSI — In September 2009 you initiated the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU), an unaccredited university established in a donated space on…