Tag: Mr. Brainwash
-
Banksy Puzzles With ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ – NYTimes.com
Riddle? Yes. Enigma? Sure. Documentary? (Published 2010) Banksy, the pseudonymous British street artist, is laboring in a new documentary to convince audiences that he’s playing it straight. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/movies/14banksy.html The thing is, both Banksy and Mr. Guetta are pretty unreliable narrators. The immediate scuttlebutt was that Mr. Guetta either didn’t exist at all, that he…
-
Photog Prevails in Copyright Case Over ‘Mr. Brainwash’
Photog Prevails in Copyright Case Over ‘Mr. Brainwash’ | PDNPulse Photographer Dennis Morris has won his lawsuit against the appropriation artist known as Mr. Brainwash for unauthorized use of a decades-old image (shown at right) of deceased punk rocker Sid Vicious. A federal district court judge in Los Angeles recently via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/03/photog-prevails-in-copyright-case-over-mr-brainwash.html At the…
-
Judge Rules for Photog In Copyright Suit Over RUN DMC Photo
Judge Rules for Photog In Copyright Suit Over RUN DMC Photo | PDNPulse French artist Theirry Guetta is guilty of infringing on photographer Glen E. Friedman’s copyright, a federal judge has ruled. Guetta was accused of using a well-know Friedman image of hip-hop pioneers RUN DMC as the basis for several artworks, including “ via…
-
Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash sued for copyright infringement over Run DMC image – Boing Boing
Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash sued for copyright infringement over Run DMC image Above Top: Photo of Run DMC, taken by Glen E. Friedman Above Bottom: Invitation Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash used for his debut exhibition ‘Life Is Beautiful’ Earlier this month I … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/26/thierry-guetta-aka-m.html Earlier this month I noted that…
-
Mr. Brainwash Bombs L.A.
Aficionados of Los Angeles street art might recognize the now-familiar work of one “Mr. Brainwash,” a.k.a. MBW, a.k.a. Thierry Guetta, a French filmmaker turned graffiti provocateur. Over the past few months, Mr. Brainwash images have become ubiquitous in greater Hollywood, evolving from the Banksy-style black-and-white stencils of a guy wielding a movie camera to repurposed…