When describing his painting ‘Candlelight Cottage,’ the late Thomas Kinkade said its ‘candlelight has a cozy, intimate quality — especially when it’s suffused in the soft mist of this fine English ...

"Bad art succeeds where good art fails," might be the lesson from Sarah Jones's fascinating exploration of Thomas Kinkade's cultural impact in Dissent Magazine. In early July, the Department of ...

Thomas Kinkade, master of the innocuous cottage paintings with warm, candle-lit windows and fluffy clouds just got upgraded with Star Wars. Watch as a batch of Stormtroopers set Kinkade’s world ablaze ...

News of Thomas Kinkade’s death arrived on the same day I received in the mail a vintage teacup on which I had spent a ridiculous amount of money. It has a cottage painted on it. Kinkade, whose work ...

As admirers await an autopsy report, revealing to the world how a 54-year-old man dies in his sleep of “natural causes,” we might pause to wonder about Thomas Kinkade, his work, and the many who have ...

SAN FRANCISCO — To fans and the countless collectors who helped build painter Thomas Kinkade‘s commercial art empire, his idealized vision of the world usually served as a simple, soothing addition to ...

Stormtroopers set cutesy cottages aflame in a genius new mashup called “Wars on Kinkade.” Some genius named Jeff Bennett has unleashed the full force of the Dark Side on the Painter of Light’s treacly ...

With their pastoral beauty and wonderful use of light, it's no wonder that paintings by Thomas Kinkade are among the most popular American art ever produced. Although there are tons of prints out ...

Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that attempts to promote local tourism have failed and his mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is ...