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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 worked backwards, developing a massive global following on social media for his toys and collectibles. Eventually, interest trickled up to some of the most powerful players in the art world.

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

KAWS, English, and Fairey have sold their multi-faceted artwork to certain top-line art collectors who paid thousands, if not millions of dollars, to display these pop culture/street-inspired ...

KAWS’s art exists only to further establish the KAWS aesthetic, it exists to sell KAWS. I have no idea why the Serpentine has got involved with this.