Mr Brainwash opens a museum in Beverly Hills
13 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Mr. Brainwash Art Museum will open on December 18th at the former Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills (465 N. Beverly Drive).
Thierry Guetta, best known by his moniker Mr. Brainwash, is a French-born Los Angeles-based street artist. According to the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing store, and amateur videographer who was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader, and who filmed street artists through the 2000s and became an artist in his own right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy.
A number of critics have observed that his works strongly emulate the styles and concepts of Banksy, and have speculated that Guetta is an elaborate prank staged by Banksy, who may have created the works himself. Banksy insists on his official website, however, that Exit Through the Gift Shop is authentic and that Guetta is not part of a prank.
His work sold for five-figure sums at his self-financed debut exhibit Life Is Beautiful, due, it is thought, to a mixture of an overheated and hyped street art market and his endorsements from Banksy and Fairey. The exhibit was held in Los Angeles, California, on June 18, 2008, and was a popular success. In 2009, Madonna paid Guetta to design the cover art for her Celebration album.
13 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Mr. Brainwash Art Museum will open on December 18th at the former Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills (465 N. Beverly Drive).
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13 March 2020 • Mark Westall
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19 February 2020 • Mark Westall
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11 April 2018 • Mark Westall
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7 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Buy Buy ..
17 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Sanderson is an official partner of Frieze London 2014 and they have brought together street pop art phenomenon Mr. Brainwash, and FAD favourite artist Dannielle Hodson for an exclusive exhibition and live interactive artwork.
17 March 2014 • Mark Westall
‘Art Wars’ stormtrooper helmets currently available for purchase by The Chapman Brothers, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Joana Vasconcelos, Mr.Brainwash, Mat Collishaw, Ben Moore, Jason Brooks, Paul Fryer, and Alison Jackson.
27 September 2013 • Mark Westall
Mr Brainwash Does Art Wars @STRARTA
10 September 2013 • Mark Westall
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17 April 2013 • Mark Westall
World Famous Artist MR. BRAINWASH presents the WORLD DEBUT SHOW for his son the Artist; ‘HIJACK’.
10 November 2012 • Mark Westall
I’m a bit of a Jackson pollock in bed, and I think that carries over into my artwork. I draw my lines jarring and with added pressure at the end, and I fuck like that as well.
21 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Its raining f**cking poring down and I don’t have an umbrella SHIT and I’m wearing these boots that I love – I gotta interview Mr Brainwash
19 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Los Angeles-based Filmmaker and critically acclaimed pop artist Mr Brainwash has directed his first ever music video for GRAMMY award-winning DJ and producer David Guetta’s latest club hit ‘Metropolis.
12 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Mr Brainwash re:opens his show today .
13 August 2012 • Mark Westall
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1 August 2012 • Mark Westall
This Sunday Mr. Brainwash will be taking over The Old Sorting Office, a colossal space centrally located next to the British Museum at the corner of New Oxford Street and Museum Street in London, during the Olympics this summer.
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Life is Beautiful 2011 didn’t disappoint the expectations of over 300 fans who were fortune enough to attend the last (and first) big exhibition of the controversial artist in LA
21 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Mr.Brainwash will be opening a new exhibition, Art Show 2011, in an 80,000 square foot building in Los Angeles over… Read More