New documentary ‘Art for Everybody’ charts painter Thomas Kinkade’s journey from brooding work to mass-producing ‘feel-good’ kitsch. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to provide you with local news, ...

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In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny ...

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny LEDs ...

Lampposts casting a glow over the scene. These are the soothing images – the functional equivalent of comfort food — that made artist Thomas Kinkade a fortune in the 1980s and ‘90s.

It seems he has heard this before, and it doesn’t even register. It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon — his empire of art galleries in shopping malls across the country; the Kinkade ...

“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 once presided over an empire of radiantly unrealistic imagery, but his popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of the man's identity, as Miranda Yousef's documentary reveals.

Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade's quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured story that contrasts with his 'sugary' artworks. Thomas Kinkade was ...