Donnelly makes no apologies for appropriating mainstream staples. In fact, he wears the term “appropriation” like a badge of ...

His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us ...

KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, is one of the hottest artists in the world. Which means that the Brooklyn Museum has the hottest ticket in town with the opening of “KAWS: WHAT PARTY,” a career-spanning ...

Picture this: a line of dozens of people snaking down the aisle of a convention center, each writing their names on a legal pad. No, they aren’t signing up for the chance to win a free trip to the ...

KAWS has pissed the art world off for essentially as long as he’s been successful because of the strength of his own branding. Long before other artists were collaborating with streetwear brands or ...

This morning we launch a trio of reports looking at graffiti artists who are turning a corner into the mainstream. With Serena Altschul we make the acquaintance of KAWS: What is it … or who, to be ...

Over the course of a career that has variously infuriated anti-graffiti task force officers and enthralled Japanese street couture collectors -- meaning winning props from hip-hop superstars Kanye ...

on two sides of a rooftop at 13th and Coles. It's the tag of Brian Donnelly, arguably Jersey City's most celebrated artist to date, who painted his pseudonym there in the early 1990s so it would be ...

‘Companion’ by KAWS, installed at the Standard Hotel. (Photo: George Rose/Getty Images) Brian Donnelly, the artist who goes by the pseudonym KAWS, first created “Companion”—a black and gray figure ...

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 ...

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., ...

It was 97 degrees in Ridgefield, Connecticut, yesterday afternoon when friends of KAWS arrived at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. They disembarked a bus chartered by the artist -- Jersey City ...