Brian Donnelly (born November 4, 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer.

Jul 5, 2024 · Kaws is an artist-designer of the present, if not from the future. Not only does the 45-year-old New Yorker looks much younger than he actually is, he also shows what the art world could look like in the coming decades.

KAWS is a contemporary art and design brand founded by Brian Donnelly in the late 1990s. Brian Donnelly began his career as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s before he started to create and develop his iconic KAWS characters that would eventually …

Sep 3, 2019 · Still, there are some dead-enders. KAWS’s paintings of cartoon characters modified with his trademark bulbous skull heads and Xed-out eyes are not to be found in the collection of the Museum of...

Sep 2, 2021 · There’s signs of misogyny in Kaws’s early work, which the exhibition never explores, where he covered the heads of mostly women in ads with their eyes crossed out like a serial killer would do.

Feb 9, 2021 · Variations on that character — which art writers have described as “a dream half-remembered,” “a spectacle for mass consumption” and, in a long ago piece I myself wrote, “a dead Mickey ...

Jan 18, 2022 · KAWS: Change in Total Sales, # of Lots Offered and Sold. However, one of the biggest and most controversial art figures and main headline grabbers of the last decade did not see his auction sales numbers rebound and crush pre-pandemic performances: Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS.

THERE IS A TRADITIONAL BELIEF in Japanese households that deceased parents, siblings, and children linger close at hand, remaining nearby as members of the family and a comfort to the living. Newer, more eclectic sects hold that even departed pets stay with their owners as reassuring companions.

Mar 8, 2021 · But nothing succeeds like success—KAWS found a rapt audience via entertainment-intensive public works, including the “Holiday” series of enormous Companions.

Apr 19, 2021 · Since KAWS is known for appropriating child-friendly icons—like Sponge Bob Square Pants, or the Simpsons—we figured we’d ask some actual children what they thought.