{"id":1020,"date":"2008-10-27T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/kinkade-creeps-up-on-hirst\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T10:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:19:35","slug":"kinkade-creeps-up-on-hirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/27\/kinkade-creeps-up-on-hirst\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinkade Creeps Up On Hirst"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times CULTURE MONSTER<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thomas Kinkade, power artist<\/a><\/h1>\n

3:30 PM, October 16, 2008<\/p>\n

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\"Thomas_kinkade_untitled\"<\/a>The other day, Britain’s ArtReview magazine issued its\u00a0Power 100 list<\/a>, a ranking of artists, dealers, collectors and assorted others who ostensibly “run the art world.” While most attention focuses on who is at the top — artist Damien Hirst, dealer Larry Gagosian and Museum of Modern Art associate director Kathy Halbreich came in at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 —\u00a0way more interesting<\/a>\u00a0is who brings up the rear.<\/p>\n

Number 100 on\u00a0the list<\/a>\u00a0is Sacramento-born Thomas Kinkade, 50, self-described “Painter of Light,” whose treacle-plenty pictures of bucolic bliss have been cranked out by the hundreds over the years.<\/p>\n

A joke from across the pond? Or a simple sign of the inescapable silliness of all such lists?<\/p>\n

Either way, Kinkade seems to nicely bracket the Power 100.<\/p>\n

— Christopher Knight<\/p>\n

<\/span>Photo credit: Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to read at CULTURE MONSTER blog<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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