Artnet

Of All Things, U.S. Homeland Security Just Shared a Thomas Kinkade Painting

“Protect the Homeland,” the caption read, suggesting that the painting represents a charming town that could be anywhere in America. Kinkade, of course, built an art empire in the 1980s and ’90s, mass ...
Variety

Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall

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 ...
Variety

‘Art for Everybody’ Review: An Illuminating Look at an American Painter Far Darker Than His ‘Art’ Let On

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. In the ...
Los Angeles Times

In the documentary ‘Art for Everybody,’ the dark side of a ‘Painter of Light’ is exposed

If you think you’ve never seen a painting by Thomas Kinkade, think again. The late artist, who is said to have sold more canvases than any painter in history, created a cottage industry (pun intended) ...
tdn

New homes to be modeled on Thomas Kinkade art

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Fans of Thomas Kinkade's sentimental paintings soon will be able to do more than hang them on the wall. They could hang them on the wall of a house designed to look exactly like ...