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Art for Everybody” is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar.
A new documentary by Miranda Yousef, "Art for Everybody," reveals a vault of unseen works by Thomas Kinkade, the "painter of ...
Thomas Kinkade's popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of his identity, as revealed in Miranda Yousef's well-researched ...
Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.
A thoroughly fascinating documentary about a family discovering the depth and complexity of their patriarch while coming to ...
“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural impact with really bad art,” says the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in a new documentary film about the painter. “I ...
"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.
She is standing at a table groaning with reproductions of Kinkade’s trademark images, such as quaint cottages and homey cabins nestled ... s mass-produced art, which became wildly popular ...