Tag: Mr. BrainWash
Someone attempted to deface Banksy’s new Girl With A Pierced Eardrum mural just hours after it was discovered near the Bristol Marina, but failed, terribly. The haphazardly thrown black paint makes it look more like an unholy collaboration with Mr. Brainwash than it does a wanton act of vandalism. (Photo: IVTV News West Country) […]
Sadly, artist Mr. Brainwash is still a thing that exists. Even more depressing, he still gets hired to do commercial work. And still even more dreadful than that, he was recently commissioned by Century 21 to wheatpaste paint a big sloppy mural commemorating 9/11 right across the street from the World Trade Center site. The […]
Just days after Richard Prince triumphantly won his copyright lawsuit, just when we supposedly established that “law does not require that a new work of art comment on any of its source material to qualify as fair use” — today, appropriation rights take a step back. A California judge has ruled that Mr. Brainwash was, […]
A Los Angeles federal district court judge recently ruled against the inexplicably famous street artist Mr. Brainwash in a copyright infringement case involving a 1977 portrait of Sid Vicious by Dennis Morris. In rejecting his motion for summary judgement on the grounds of “fair use,” he also effectively ruled the so-called “appropriation art” mediocre. According to […]
In several of the works at the Moustache Man’s debut solo show at New York’s Krause Gallery, the street artist/comedian who once wrote the word “moustache” on subway ads around the city takes cheeky aim at his peers. To lambast Mr. Brainwash–whom Moustache Man, like most reasonable people, holds in low regard–the artist dipped his scrotum […]
