Mr. Brainwash: Coming Soon to A Wall (Or Auction House) Near You

by SAVAGENYC

(NEW YORK) International hell-raiser and provocateur-nonpareil Mr. Brainwash will soon be blowing up Manhattan's Meat Packing District, with what news-makers promise will be a star-making solo debut.

ICONS will open Sunday, February 14 at 415 West 13th Street: 15,000 square feet of anarchy, painting and sculpture. The first 300 people to arrive will be awarded with original prints, created and signed by the artist.

Don't even miss this one; if you do, you'll be missing history in the making.

You may be familiar with Mr. Brainwash from his mind-bendingly surreal and super-scale illegal paste-ups, which borrow from Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Warhol,and cover entire buildings in Los Angeles.

MBW's paste-ups have earned him an international cult following from devotees as far afield as London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, and he's also the subject of a new documentary, Exit Through The Gift Shop, which has caused much head-scratching at Sundance.

Paris versus NYC According To Jean-Paul Gaultier

Up-and-coming art impresario Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld blew up NYC's Lower East Side last night in inimitable French style, exhibiting 16 never-before-shown paintings by Parisian artist Nicolas Pol, who is being compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat by French art critics.

The champagne-soaked affair drew an enormous crowd of fashion and society types, from John Paul Gaultier and Neville Wakefield to Mary Kate Olsen and Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue (who just happens to be curator Vladimir Roitfeld's mom).

Nicolas Pol "Studies for a Pink Martus" 
Mixed Media 2009
205 x 310 cm

Steve Wolfe on Paper at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Copying book covers may seem like a simple-minded idea, but the experience of Mr. Wolfe's works is surprisingly rich---visually, conceptually, psychologically and sociologically. Above all, you sense in his art a kind of monkish devotion that turns feats of technique into icons of a deeply personal religion.

New Warhol Biography from Arthur Danto

Danto suggests that “what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans. . . . The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art.”

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