Art for Everybody” is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar.

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas ... Kinkade said, adding that “Warhol’s dream was that he would become a robot who just could push a button and his paintings ...

"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.

Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles is co-sponsoring one of the films at this year’s AfterImage Film Festival in St ...