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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up for less than a week, downtown Detroit’s new high-profile piece of public art has already become a target for vandalism. Someone using red marker wrote “Im Sorry Massuh I Know In Not Allowed Tuh ...

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 ...