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

"Art for Everybody" is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar.

“Thomas Kinkade ... an abusive and often absent father. But Kinkade did not start out as an aspirational Norman Rockwell-Walt Disney hybrid. “I want to avoid painting silly and sweet pictures ...

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas ... Kinkade said, adding that “Warhol’s dream was that he would become a robot who just could push a button and his paintings ...

"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect ... and only intermittently saw his violent father. "It's a common criticism that his cottages ...

If she did invest her life’s savings in Kinkade’s mass-produced art ... business, Thomas Kinkade Studios. They speak candidly about the patriarch’s failures as a husband, father, Christian ...

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ... In 1779, as Virginia’s governor, Thomas Jefferson had drafted a bill that guaranteed legal equality for citizens of all religions ...

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.