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

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 ...

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 ... and only intermittently saw his violent father. "It's a common criticism that his cottages ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...