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 ...
The Drawing Center in New York City recently opened a monumental exhibition entitled The Way I See It that features over 350 artworks curated by KAWS. Culled from his immense, personal collection of ...
Last month, KAWS teamed up with augmented and virtual reality experts, Acute Art, to launch digitized EXPANDED HOLIDAY sculptures featuring his signature Companion character. This time around, the duo ...
Why does the art world begrudge the fact that KAWS is one of the biggest names in town? There is an art-world cabal that fascinates me, consisting of those who think it looks smart to wrinkle one’s ...
His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us toward the gift shop. KAWS is the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly.
There aren’t many things people are willing to wait in long lines for. A new Shake Shack? Maybe. A Rihanna concert? Probably. A Supreme sneaker launch? For sure. But a public KAWS sculpture? Yeah, you ...
Editor’s Note: This story features a video excerpt from CNN’s Talk Asia featuring an interview with KAWS. The episode airs this month. Brian Donnelly’s beginnings were humble enough, having started ...
The contemporary art star has turned the classic success model on its head by tapping into the psychology of Generation X-ers. KAWS is the pseudonym of Brian Donnelly, the graffiti-tagger and ...
Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS, was awarded $900,000 in damages this week by a court in New York after the artist filed a lawsuit in 2021 accusing a man in Singapore of reproducing KAWS works on ...