Art for Everybody review – the dark side of Thomas Kinkade, ‘painter of light’

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The extraordinarily popular painter of kitsch American scenes struggled with addiction and depression, as this documentary with access to his previously unseen works shows You won’t find the works of Thomas Kinkade lining the walls of the Museum of Modern Art, yet the painter, who died in 2012, is one of the best-selling artists in history and his paintings hang in tens of millions of American households. Kinkade’s typical subjects – rustic landscapes, sleepy cottages, quaint gazebos – bask in an idyllic calm, a luminous callback to a fabled simpler past. Turning to his unpublished archive, Miranda Yousef’s engrossing documentary portrait unveils the dark shadows that lurked within the self-titled “painter of light”. Through interviews with family members, close collaborators and critics, as well as Kinkade’s own words, the film traces his meteoric success in the 1980s and 90s. Shunned by the art world, he marketed his works through home-shopping television channels and a network of...
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BTS’ music video for Halsey’s feat has reached 1.5 billion views. This is now the most viewed video on youtube

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The influence of BTS on the music industry is so great that the group's tracks and videos often set historical records. For example, in August 2020, the visualization of Dynamite gained 98 million views in the first day, which helped the musicians beat the previous YouTube maximum. Before that, Blackpink 's video for the song How You Like That was in the lead on the video hosting - it was watched 86.3 million times. Later, the video got into the Guinness Book of Records - three million fans watched the live broadcast of the clip simultaneously. Now another visualization of BTS is breaking records - the video Boy With Luv has gained 1.5 billion views. The performers shared the good news on their YouTube channel BANGTANTV. Recall that the track Boy With Luv was released on April 12, 2019. It became a collaboration between BTS and Halsey . Then the song was introduced as the first single from BTS's sixth mini album called Map of the Soul: Persona. In February 2022, the feat became the most popular Korean-language song in the history of Spotify , reaching 800 million streams in almost three years. Now, the visualization of the hit can also boast of outstanding results: the video for Boy With Luv became the first BTS video to reach more than 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The most viewed video in the band's history is followed by a visualization of Dynamite with 1.4 billion views. Finally, the top three is closed by the video on the DNA track. It is possible that soon the boy band will set even more personal and historical records. On April 17, BTS announced their new album, which will be released on June 10 this year. The musicians have published a teaser of the long-awaited musical project on their YouTube channel. The visual of the video is a strip of black-and-white excerpts from the group's performances and BTS's clips. At the end of the video, the phrase "We are bulletproof" appears ("We are bulletproof"). At the same time, fans are intrigued by the words of Snoop Dogg about the future fit with the boy band . R ecall that at the end of March 2022, the rapper spoke about the upcoming joint track. According to him, South Korean artists should share the details of the project with fans.

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