Press for The Kinkade Family Foundation
Docs: “Art for Everybody” Explores the Life of Wildly Successful but Critically Derided Artist Thomas Kinkade
April 8, 2020
Following other relief efforts made to aid the art world affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the Kinkade Family Foundation has partnered with New Art Dealers Alliance to support its members and art galleries by releasing prints based on never-before-seen artwork by the late American painter Thomas Kinkade.
Playing off the frenzied hoarding that followed self-isolation policies — which unexpectedly caused toilet paper shortages — the foundation has spotlighted Kinkade’s artwork featuring a toilet paper roll….Read more
April 8, 2020
Kinkade Family Foundation Emergency Grant for Curators: The Kinkade Family Foundation is distributing emergency grants for curators who are developing projects promoting contemporary and experimental art.
The Foundation will give priority to curators who have a venue secured for their project and are greatly impacted by financial challenges due to COVID-19….Read more
March 21, 2020
…the Kinkade Family Foundation has a new emergency grant for curators experiencing “unexpected emergencies” related to COVID-19….Read more
March 23, 2020
Sometimes, help can come from the unlikeliest places. The Kinkade Family Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the legacy of “painter of light” Thomas Kinkade, is launching a new emergency grant program for curators, offering them up to $5,000.
Priority will be given to those who have already secured venues for their projects, but who have been impacted by recent closures and cancellations….Read more
March 19, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting pretty much everyone. In the art world, spaces are rapidly shuttering and projects being canceled. While it will be very difficult to mitigate the significant financial losses, there are emergency grants out there.
The Kinkade Family Foundation is offering one of these grants, specifically geared to curators….Read more
February 25, 2020
Smashed between adult star Sasha Grey, filmmaker-artist Miranda July, and underground legend Ian Svenonius in the space of Wolfgang Pucks’ original Spago on the Sunset Strip, a weird claustrophobia set in.
So I skipped outside to watch magician-artist Brian Butler, sword in hand, hollering Luciferean incantations in a bloodred glow as the moon rose above him. I half-expected a demon to leap from the Hollywood sign and eat us all in a single, wet gulp….Read more
January 17, 2020
Healing lives in the South Bay came full circle for staffers at CityTeam. One family’s donation will allow for more than a dozen formerly homeless women and their children to have a place to live.
On a gloomy damp Thursday in the Willow Glen section of San Jose, the ceremonial snipping of red ribbon ushers in light.
“Shining our lights is helping to make the world a better place,” said Nanette Kinkade, the benefactor of the….Read more
December 31, 2019 | By Alissa Bennett
It was just four years before he accidentally dispatched himself from planet Earth with a suicidally reckless cocktail of Valium and vodka that Thomas Kinkade celebrated the release of his Hallmark Channel-esque biopic, Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage.
The film has the empty-calorie appeal specific to Kinkade’s most beloved paintings….Read more
May 12, 2017
Pass through the doors of Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles and you may think you have entered the astral plane.
In one room are feathered costumes and alien paintings produced by the Unarius Academy of Science, the 6-decade-old El Cajon spiritual group that believes in reincarnation and the channeling of knowledge from alien beings. In another is a spiraling wall piece attributed to the seminal Dadaist Marcel Duchamp.
“The Basilisk,” as this exhibition is called, is no ordinary show....Read more
March 20, 2023
If one stopped a hundred people on the street in the United States and asked them to name the most popular and successful artist of the past quarter century, it’s unlikely more than a few — if any — would name Thomas Kinkade. And yet sales estimates claim that at his peak, one out of every 20 homes in America owned a copy of one of his paintings.
The interesting new nonfiction film Art for Everybody, which enjoyed its world premiere at the South by Southwest Festival on March 13 in the Documentary Spotlight section, unpacks the life and outsized impact of Kinkade. And yet sales estimates claim that at his peak, one out of every 20 homes in America owned a copy of one of his paintings….Read more
Art for Everybody
March 13, 2023
Thomas Kinkade, the most successful artist of his time, was beloved and despised for his paintings of cozy cottages. He rose to fame in the ‘90s, marketing himself to evangelicals and against the art establishment. Yet beneath his pristine image were demons that would drive him to alcoholism, scandal, and death from an overdose in 2012.
After his passing, Kinkade’s daughters uncovered a trove of unseen, dark paintings, launching a search for the true man and artist behind the brand. Through skeptical critics, adoring fans, and Kinkade’s friends and family, "Art For Everybody" uncovers the real Thomas Kinkade, a complex man divided by the same forces that continue to pull us all apart…Read more
Pickleball, cheesecake, Tiki drinks: SF DocFest serves up every flavor
May 29, 2024
Fruity cocktails, skateboard art, UFO cults and Gogol Bordello—yes, reality is frequently less than brutal when it’s programmed at SF Docfest (Thu/30-June 9 at the Roxie and streaming online), the annual city showcase for nonfiction cinema. Now in its 23rd year, the San Francisco Documentary Festival’s 2024…Read more
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival returns for its 24th year
May 29, 2024
There’s something for everybody at this year’s San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, including the fascinating Art For Everybody, a feature about populist painter Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed ‘Painter of Light’ whose cheery Rockwell-style landscapes adorned countless calendars, collectible plates, and living room walls throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Kinkade’s massive success meant he was deeply reviled by critics, some of whom resented his popularity and accessibility while others found his style tacky and insincere…Read more
6 films you can’t miss at SF DocFest
May 27, 2024
Kitsch or art is in the eye of the beholder. Known as “the painter of light,” Thomas Kinkade’s work was often dismissed as the former even as he was building one of the most successful art careers of the late 20th century, his work found in malls and home shopping networks and reproduced on plates, cups, and much more before it all fell apart in the years leading up to his 2012 death. With observations from collectors, friends, art critics, his family, and Kinkade himself in archival footage, this documentary reveals what all those pictures of cozy cottages hid: a complicated life as tragic as it was triumphant…Read More.
April 7, 2020
Rare and never-before-seen artwork by famed artist Thomas Kinkade has been released by the Kinkade Family Foundation. The foundation has partnered with New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), to release the prints in support of its members and art galleries nationally.
Millions of Americans have been left unemployed due to coronavirus, and the arts and entertainment industry has been hit hard with at least 95% of union workers left jobless…Read more
Thomas Kinkade’s serene paintings hung in one of 20 American homes — as he hid a vault of tortured art
March 22, 2023
The art of Thomas Kinkade became a Nineties phenomenon as collectors and the American public clamored for his pieces while critics rolled their eyes. But the ‘Painter of Light’ was battling personal demons as business woes and scandal plagued the empire before his death at 54 — and a new film lifts the lid not only on Kinkade’s inner struggles but a vault of uncharacteristic art discovered by his family… more