From the streets of New York, this is how KAWS artist Brian Donnelly built a global legacy that now includes Thailand.

Kaws has often reworked familiar Disney characters, such as Mickey Mouse, in his artworks. The artist’s career already began at the interface between art and commercial work. In the late 1990s ...

Street art and collectibles sensation–turned ... The piece, commissioned for the occasion, is titled SHARE, and features KAWS’s Mickey Mouse-like “Companion” character carrying a ...

while others have arguably been completely subsumed into the KAWS universe. Companion is considered the artist’s most famous character, which is based on the cartoon figure of Mickey Mouse ...

Art school in Manhattan was the natural ... head of a Companion (the Companion’s design was inspired by Mickey Mouse, after KAWS spent some time as a Disney background animator) or Marlboro ...

Reese's Puffs is channeling the collectible quality of Kaws' pop art, which heavily references cultural icons like Mickey Mouse, giving it an iterable quality that's drawn comparisons to Andy Warhol.

Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, at the Drawing Center ... in New York (on view through Jan. 19). His art, featuring Companion (resembling Mickey Mouse), BFF (Elmo), and Chum (the Michelin Man ...

An article in The Art Newspaper lamented “the sheer conceptual bankruptcy of KAWS’s work ... clothed in Mickey Mouse shorts and gloves, and often, but not always, rendered in a dour ...

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 ...