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 ...

Based on the life of influential artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki), The Christmas Cottage tells the story of his humble beginnings and the inspiration behind his most famous painting, for which ...

The Christmas cottages have dimmed their lights while millions of little azaleas droop their Pepto-pink heads. Thomas Kinkade, king of landscape kitsch and self-billed Painter of Light™, has fallen ...

Thomas Kinkade—self-proclaimed “Painter of Light” who, by his own estimation, renders larger, intangible senses of “morality” into bland pictures of cottages and Christ-like Pinocchios to complement ...

"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 ...

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