With 2.4m Instagram followers, a $14.8m sale and brawls for his T-shirts in Uniqlo, is the artist dismissed as 'conceptually bankrupt' more than just a pop culture craze?

Where the End Starts at Yuz Museum in Shanghai is the largest KAWS's exhibition in China, and also his first survey exhibition in Asia. Jointly organized by Yuz Museum and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in close collaboration with the artist, KAWS: Where the End Starts features his key paintings, sculptures, drawings, toys, and advertisement...

Virtual reality is fast becoming the new norm, and is seems the iconic chocolate brand M&M’s wants a part of the action. Bringing on the keen eye and direction of fashion and luxury art imprint VISIONAIRE, its latest effort takes the artwork of Brian Donelly, better known as KAWS to new heights. The collaboration sees KAWS’ signature shapes...

The NY Art Book Fair draws a huge crowd every year, and so it wasn’t a surprise that there were lines everywhere at this year’s edition—lines to get into the bathroom, lines to see certain booths, lines for the KAWS signing (the longest line of all), and lines simply to get into the fair itself. But those lines moved quickly, and...

We celebrate the middle of August with a collection of unique and thought-provoking shows. In Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries and artist Caroline Rothwell offer a refreshing approach to that most enduring of questions: what is the relationship between nature and man? In a similar vein, Mongolian artist Xiao Yu considers the same topic, turning his...

KAWS introduces “Man’s Best Friend,” a series of screenprints based on the artist’s signature Snoopy motif. If you were looking for a quick flip, this is probably not your chance to cash out. The abstracted black-and-white prints are limited to 100 pieces and will only be sold in the full set of 10. This is basically an...

Three weeks before the official opening on the 6th of February, the historically designed landscape of Yorkshire Sculpture Park turned into sort of a construction site last weekend. With large trucks, cranes and other heavy machinery in place, the setup of the first UK museum exhibition by KAWS has begun. Different body parts, Mickey-like...

Contemporary art publisher Pace Prints has teamed up with KAWS to present a set of limited prints, slated to be released during this year’s Art Basel Miami. The NYC-based printer and gallery provided us with the artist’s long-awaited You Should Know I Know work earlier this year, which is currently being auctioned for nearly $15K. The...

Although he’s had a busy year in terms of public displays – what with new exhibitions at Amsterdam’s ArtZuid Fair and in Shanghai's CLEAN SLATE exhibition  – we haven’t had the opportunity to take home a new print from KAWS since last year’s Presenting The Past print. Here KAWS sneaks up on us by...

Erected earlier this week in Shanghai’s bustling Huangpu district, Brooklyn contemporary artist Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS, ventured to the heart of Middle Kingdom for his latest undertaking. Following the showing of “CLEAN SLATE” last year at Hong Kong’s Harbour City, KAWS brings his concept to the mainland...