Thomas Kinkade has become a very rich man selling his paintings, many of them to Christians. But many believers also dismiss the work of the “Painter of Light” as commercial kitsch, and ...

I’m a hack myself, and let me tell you something: if I found a way to create the writing equivalent of a Thomas Kinkade painting, and make as much money as he did, I’d do it in trice.

It was a slice of Bohemia in a city of commerce, a gathering of intellectuals striking out against what they see as mindless and saccharin art. On Friday night, dozens of artists converged on a ...

Thomas Kinkade, the “Painter of Light” and one of the most popular artists in America, died suddenly Friday at his Monte Sereno home. He was 54. His family said in a statement that his death ...