He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade - whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow as if lit from within (some of them literally are, with tiny LEDs embedded ...

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 ... to shine from the canvas.

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade ... what is art and who gets to decide?” The film nicely sets up Kinkade against the context of contemporary art.

You could deck your whole life out in Thomas Kinkade. Kinkade, who turned out these original images and called himself the “Painter of Light,” is the subject of the new documentary “Art for ...