Art For Everybody,' a documentary about painter Thomas Kinkade, looks at his downfall after achieving vast success and his ...

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-themed ...

“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 ...

In a new film profile, Thomas Kinkade's pastoral, hugely popular work sits uncomfortably with darker revelations from family members and a trove of unseen work.

"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.

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.

He carried a few extra pounds and sported a goatee as he spoke with fatherly instruction during art lessons from stages and TV screens. Thomas Kinkade was a popular art sensation the likes of ...

“This is where I’m putting my retirement money,” says a woman in a brief but infuriating scene from the new documentary “Art for Everybody,” about the life and downfall of the enormously ...