PUBLIC ART: Bruce’s Beach artwork selected in a last minute flip

by Mark McDermott Toni Scott's proposed artwork for Bruce's Beach had the feel of inevitability. Not only within the City of Manhattan Beach's extensive selection process, but the narrative arc of the work itself, and how it came to be.Both the Arts in Public Places Committee and the Cultural Arts Commission had recommended her proposal, "Unity: Circle of Memory," an eight-foot bronze female figure lifting a circle overhead to frame a view of the ocean. Staff had also recommended the wo