KAWS' KAWSBob Enters the Strange Forest sold for $188,500 at Christie’s auction to benefit victims of Japan’s Tohoku-Pacific earthquake. This work borrows from the work of his friend, Takashi Murakami, and appropriates the character of SpongeBob SquarePants. Here, the strange forest is the crossroads of art and mass media, as is the original world of KAWS.
10 November 2011