His collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel.
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Brian Donnelly, a.k.a.
KAWS, is one of the most famous artists alive.
He seems to be everywhere, all the time.
His work is colorful, super-smooth, expensive, but also available as mass-produced objects and gewgaws.
He makes cartoonlike characters with Xs for eyes.
Ive been ambivalent about his art, other than having typical art-world envy of his success.
The show is also a pointed critique of collectors and institutions that shun drawing and outsider artists as minor.
Her wild illustrations look like fashion pages implanted with sticks of colorful Pop-Cubist dynamite.
Also, the insanely intricate portraits by Henry Darger and Adolf Wolfli should be in a museum.
Shaws squirrelly show changed everything by opening a hundred possible doors for thousands of artists.
The Way I See Itmay do that for drawing.
