Press for The Kinkade Family Foundation
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
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