open image in gallery California painter Thomas Kinkade built an art empire known for serene scenes featuring a characteristic glow; he was nicknamed the ‘Painter of Light’ (Alamy Stock Photo ...

Miranda Yousef: Friends in the art world told my producing partner, Tim Rummel, and me that there was something interesting and unusual about Thomas Kinkade. I was familiar with the Painter of ...

The Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) is hosting a free screening of Art for Everybody: Welcome to the World of Thomas Kinkade on ...

“Art for Everybody” is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar. “This is where I’m putting my retirement money,” says a woman in a ...

“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 ...

“When I got saved, God became my art agent,” Kinkade explained in a video. But in 2003, the artist was accused of using his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce people to invest in the ...