A BRUCELLANY
by Charlie Finch



Well attended by mostly middle-aged peole last Sunday afternoon, the Bruce High Quality Foundation's "Brucennial" turned out to be the real thrift-shop biennial, full of raffishly aggressive bad art, some star turns by the likes of James Nares and Julian Schnabel, and a few modest surprises of quality. And unlike its uptown brother at the Whitney, the Bruce art is overtly for sale. Here is a rundown of some of the good stuff.

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