| No, this is not an Elvis sighting, though a guess money
can buy anything. In looking through the 2006 Ann Arbor Art Fair program,
I noticed an inconsistency on the artist gallery page. The artist gallery
page is a double page spread of 24 advertisements, paid for by exhibiting
artists who want their unique work to stand out and be seen by the public
attending the art fairs. Low and behold, in the middle of the right hand
page was an advertisement for Thomas Kinkade paintings. Thomas Kinkade is
probably the most commercial artist of the past century and his work is
not available in any of the art fairs, being sold from galleries in every
shopping mall in the country and on QVC. Here's a quote from CBS about
Kinkade. "He produces paintings by the container load and he is to art
what Henry Ford was to the automobile." |
