When news broke that a new auction record had been set for KAWS, whose painting THE KAWS ALBUM (2005) sold for $14.8 million at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong this week—nearly 15 times the high estimate and ...
Critics have said KAWS' graphic style "holds about as much nutritional value as a Happy Meal." But his work has sold for as much as $14.7 million. Fans like the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, N.Y., ...
With over 300 works on paper, plus paintings, sculptures, and furniture, The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection includes work by artists of every stripe. I don’t care about his pedigree ...
Animated skulls with x-eyes. Cartoonish figures dressed in strange button-up britches. Acid-trip versions of characters from Spongebob Squarepants and The Simpsons. Jagged planes of color like a neon ...
The crowds were continuous and large for the opening night of "A Shared Space: KAWS, Karl Wirsum and Tomoo Gokita" on Wednesday (Sept. 9) at the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane. The work of ...
The High Museum of Art will mount a major exhibit in February by Brian Donnelly, a New York artist who goes by the name KAWS. But KAWS' graffiti and pop culture-inspired art-making already has caught ...
Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS, is an artist who refuses to be labeled. He began his career painting graffiti but he’s anything but a street artist. He designs and sells consumer products — toys ...