KAWS: Eyes wide shut

KAWS: WHAT PARTY is currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The artist Brian Donnelly, who goes by the name KAWS, first became popular in Asia before he gained the art world’s acceptance in the West. As visitors move through the show, they enter the realm dominated by the Companion, a character Donnelly invented in the mid-nineties. The faces of both the giant and tiny Companion iterations are subsumed by something like death masks, their eyes are X’ed out.