Tag: Bruce High Quality Foundation
Bruce High Quality Foundation University has been killing it in NYC for years. The completely free art school still has a crazy interesting curriculum with top notch teachers and speakers, they have gallery shows and events for students, they have a residency program, and they’ve been doing the always jam-packed Brucennial — which just had it’s final […]
“The art world is still a boys’ club,” artist Mollie McKinley told ANIMAL. Before a nude performer bent herself over Z Behl’s giant-horned sculpture and the crowd flooded in, we crashed the instal of this year’s massive Brucennial group show in the Meatpacking Disctrict. Soon, the lines would stretch around the block in the freezing cold and the GoPro we taped to the […]
Partially anonymous artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation is having it’s last ever Brucennial, appropriately entitled “The Grand Finale,” from March 7 through April 4. BHQF’s packed biennial event has previously received enamored reviews like these: You might view the jampacked, multifloor installation of works by close to 400 artists as a populist, radically inclusive survey of what artists in […]
Bruce High Quality Foundation University is “a learning experiment” that offers free classes to artists and art enthusiasts, from performance and sculpture critique to Brad Troemel’s Chat Room of-/post-internet lecture and discussion sessions. BHQFU is now offering a special artist residency program at their Avenue A loft, for five artists of different disciplines to work […]
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 […]
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 […]
Members of the Bruce High Quality Foundation have launched their series of “How To” videos in MOCAtv’s YouTube channel yesterday late afternoon. In the the first installment, we learn some ingenious tips, like using beer can tabs to hang a picture wire. There are also such academic insights as the importance of sight lines. There’s also a lot […]
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 […]
Opening tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum is the much anticipated retrospective of the anonymous artist group The Bruce High Quality Foundation. The exhibition, Ode to Joy, 2001–2013 will feature a massive body “less than 17,000” works. The group, “created to foster an alternative to everything,” is often hyped for their the decision to keep their identities hidden as artists’ […]
