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Learn How To Art With BHQFU and MOCAtv

Bruce High Quality Foundation, an anonymous Brooklyn-based artist collective, have been pretty busy lately: there’s a BHQF exhibition on view at the Brooklyn Museum and a new round of free BHQF University courses beginning soon at group’s Manhattan based location. And now, BHQF is releasing a series of “How To” videos on MOCAtv’s YouTube channel that we’re big fans of. Judging from the short trailer […]

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Roaches On The Dancefloor

From the YouTube channel that brought us gloriously swinging scrotum and BHQF’s “how to” art, here’s a “Bugz” from Berlin-based Low Concept. MOCAtv explains that Low Concept is a joint Ville Haimala (Renaissance Man, Millennium) and Daniel Fisher (Physical Therapy) “attempt to make literally low concept, functional music for the dancefloor.” What’s the roaches? Why is one of […]

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Take A Glitch Art Selfie With “Gush”

Adam Ferriss creates mesmerizing glitch art, and with his new interactive project Gush, you can become a part of it. (Hint: Move, click, awe.) Gush was built off Andrew Benson’s Flow Cam, to turn your webcam photos into day-glo psychedelia. “While the webcam captures the movements, a generative and evolutive loop gives rise to fluid, glitched-out and distorted […]

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Mike Kelley’s Fuck Room

We loved the Mike Kelley retrospective at MoMA PS1 last year, and now that it’s moved to MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles, it appears that we’ve missed out on one dirty detail. This is Mike Kelley’s Chinatown Wishing Well. Carolina Miranda writes: It’s a lot to absorb. But while you’re at it, don’t forget to take a peek under and […]

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Delete Your Ex-girlfriend With Yung Jake’s “Unfollow” Video

“Used to be my main bitch, now she’s just a follower …” Yung Jake (“Datamosh,” “e.m-bed.de/d,” and the Larry David rap song) has just performed his latest song “Unfollow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Click to watch the music video above. It’s his slickest video yet. And it’s very sensitive. (“Now it’s over… like a […]

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Monica Canilao Turns Dilapidated Detroit House Into Art Installation

Here’s the latest installment of MOCAtv’s Building Detroit mini-doc series with DABLS, Dmytro Szylak and ANIMAL favorite Monica Canilao. Part 1 featured writers REVOK and POSE, a giant tribute to the late NEKST going up on the side of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and walls used as infinite canvases for graffiti and street art. Part 2 focuses […]

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Watch This Documentary About NEKST And Detroit Graffiti

In the above mini documentary, MOCAtv takes a look at the late graffiti legend NEKST and the graffiti scene in Detroit. There’s some footage of the big NEKST tribute going up on the side of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, which we’ve covered before, as well as remembrances from fellow writers REVOK and POSE […]

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Le1f’s Newest Music Video Features Art-y Smoking Device

Last month, Le1f dropped Tree House, the New York based rapper’s second mixtape of the year. Yesterday, he re directed by contemporary artist Alex Da Corte on MOCAtv’s YouTube channel. The video features Le1f and a female model writhing and dancing in slow-motion over velvet bedsheets to the tune of a chopped-up beat backed by some very drippy vocals. The […]

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How to Make a Readymade With BHQF

If you’ve been following along with the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s recent contributions to MOCAtv’s YouTube channel you’ll know that they’ve already covered many of the basics, like how to properly hang a painting and how to screen-print in your bathroom. And now… The strange thing about ready-mades is that I’ve never been able to come up with a […]

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How to Silkscreen in Your Bathroom

Silkscreening an image can be daunting. Luckily, Bruce High Quality Foundation University demystified the process in their most recent “How To” video for MOCAtv’s YouTube channel. You too can learn to silkscreen a t-shirt… in your bathroom. While it may not be as precise as the high-end printshops, this is hardly a rocket science. It requires little more than […]

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