In the eyes of KAWS, SpongeBob SquarePants transforms from a goofy fry cook to a symbol of existential despair. Whether this transformation counts as “good” art is of course ripe territory for ...

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

Although part of this recognizability can be attributed to elements such as the highly stylized, street-art ... SpongeBob SquarePants, while others have arguably been completely subsumed into the ...

with two of KAWs’s KAWSBob paintings, the artist’s dark parody of the children’s cartoon character SpongeBob. “I said to Brian, ‘Have you seen this film Blow Job.’ He’s like ...

SpongeBob, Smurfs, Simpsons, much like Murakami took off from the world of Japanese contemporary culture.” For his part, KAWS seems reluctant to characterize his emerging presence in the “art ...

SpongeBob SquarePants’s eyes have the ... He has a just-opened show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, “KAWS: Alone Again,” on view until August 4. He shows with two prestigious ...

Brian Donnelly — better known as KAWS — with ... Mickey Mouse and SpongeBob SquarePants. In the last decade, his work has become an increasingly recognizable sight at major art institutions ...

Consistently taking recognisable icons of pop culture – The Simpsons, say, or Mickey Mouse or SpongeBob ... cars. Art school in Manhattan was the natural next step and there KAWS learned to ...

An exhibition of his impressive collection compels our art critic to ask if we should start taking the world famous street artist’s project more seriously. The artist known as KAWS in London ...

An exhibition of his private collection, “The Way I See It: Selections From the KAWS Collection,” at the Drawing Center is so exceptional that I now see his own art quite differently ...