August 30, 2006


The Painter of Light

“They really knew how to bait the hook,” said one former dealer who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case. “They certainly used the Christian hook.”

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posted by Deron Bauman in art, business, religion 

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5 Responses to “The Painter of Light”

  1. Andrew Simone on August 30th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    You totally beat me to the punch. I hadn’t refreshed clusterflock for a few hours, published a post on this very subject on to look immediately below it and see the very same link.

    You need publish this comment, just though you should know you have a quicker draw.

    Must be all those years in Texas.

  2. Sheila Ryan on August 30th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    Oh, this is rich. I’d read the original LA Times piece back in March courtesy of a mutual friend of Cooper’s and mine.

    A favorite passage from that article:

    In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee’s wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman’s breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind. And then there is Kinkade’s proclivity for “ritual territory marking,” as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

    “This one’s for you, Walt,” the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade’s company, in an interview.

    With reference to other details of the Mirage Incident, I wrote my friend,

    “Codpiece! Codpiece!” and “We piss anywhere, man!”:

    The comic possibilities multiply to infinity.

    (And of course, now I’ve begun to imagine variations on familiar variations of that dumb decal we’ve discussed in another context — the one featuring an image of ‘Calvin’ pissing.)

    But somehow, it’s the thought of Thomas Kinkade out of control at the Mirage that absolutely pulverizes me. Try though I might, I don’t think I could top that one if you offered me a million dollars.

    And, if I recall aright, I also expressed the retrospective wish that the tiger Montecore had ‘gone Montecore’ not on Roy Horn but Thomas Kinkade, though I supposed that would surely have prompted the summary execution of the tiger.

    Still. I like to imagine the headline: “Vegas Tiger Mauls Painter of Light”.

  3. Deron Bauman on August 30th, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    genius: “Vegas Tiger Mauls Painter of Light”

  4. Sheila Ryan on August 30th, 2006 at 6:57 pm

    . . . and isn’t it Just-So that as he witnessed a fabled Wild Animal Act at . . . the Mirage, the Painter of Light went berserk?

  5. Sheila Ryan on August 30th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    Alternate headline for an alternate mauling:

    “Tyger Tyger Burning Bright”