Life Is Beautiful, Assures Mr. Brainwash

To Banksy, he’s “a force of nature” and “a phenomenon. And I don’t mean that in a good way.” Shephard Fairey describes him “an enigma,” albeit an “infuriating” one. His passport reads Thierry Guetta, but he prefers “Mr. Brainwash,” MBW for short. Whatever you call him, tonight he unleashes his graffiti-style, pop culture-saturated creations on Los Angeles in his first exhibition, an affair that he is staging himself in a former CBS studio complex on Sunset Boulevard.