Former Street Artist KAWS Buys $17 Million Brooklyn Building

It’s been a good year for KAWS, a New York artist whose works have sold for millions of dollars at auction and popped up from Hong Kong to Texas.

It’s been so good, the artist, whose real name is Brian Donnelly, closed on a 10,000-square-foot building in Brooklyn for $17 million, Thor Equities Group said in a statement Monday. Thor, led by Joseph Sitt, purchased the building in a joint venture with Colt Equities for $9 million in 2015.