On May 17, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City sent out an e-mail blast announcing that it had limited supplies of the $200 KAWS Companion action figure available for sale in its stores and ...

To Andrea Karnes — chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the curator of KAWS: Where the End Starts, which opens there Oct. 20 — he’s the most successful cross-over artist ...

Kaws’ Yellow Tweety (2010). (Photo: Courtesy of Paddle8) The market for collectible toys is no game, evidenced by the prices in online auction house Paddle8 ’s Art Toys sales.

This is the work of KAWS, the New York-based street-art phenomenon, and it welcomes us to his show, Companionship in the Age of Loneliness. KAWS’s art, toys and branded products are big business. His ...

Artists such as Kaws and Yayoi Kusama have blurred the distinction between toys, collectibles and art, and sales for leading pop artists from houses such as Phillips and Poly Auction reflect the ...

Another reason art toys are doing so well at auction is that collectors form an emotional attachment to them. KAWS and Nara are known for producing the same figure in many variations, so a toy ...

KAWS AND EFFECT On Thursday, Scott Reyburn at the Art Newspaper investigated the growing tension between populist and elitist rhetoric in the art market. And while I think he did an admirable job ...

The rise of the American artist, whose real name is Brian Donnelly, to art-market domination and global celebrity has been well documented (we recently published a deep dive into the KAWS ...

"KAWS: FAMILY," at Crystal Bridges until July 28, debuted last year at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Ottawa. The show crossed the border tariff-free last month from Canada to Arkansas.

Artist Brian Connelly, known as KAWS, makes his Canadian debut at the AGO this month. As Jonathan Dekel writes, the art world can’t ignore him any longer ...