Now, having said that, I will say that the one or two times I wandered into one of those galleries I thought they were way over done, a little high on the snob-appeal, and really kinda weird.
Snob appeal? I doubt there is one serious art snob who has anything but total derision for his work.
You wrote, "I doubt there is one serious art snob who has anything but total derision for his work."
True, and I'm one of them. I do, however, admire his marketing savvy and his undeniable flair for self-promotion. He's sort of a hybrid between Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol (both of whom I like, by the way, weird as that sounds).
The FBI can investigate all they want, but Kincaid will ultimately win, either in a criminal case or a civil suit, or both. Any jury will come to the conclusion that people who open a store in a retail gallery showing only the work of one artist are inviting disaster.
it's caveat emptor. or at least it would be if he weren't a Christian with deep pockets.
I doubt there is one serious art snob who has anything but total derision for his work.
well, don't think you'd run into one of those working in the freaking gallery would you? But the people there, such as they were -- and I gather that they wouldn't qualify as snobs up in your rarified atmosphere -- were a tad snotty all the same. In the way you'd expect someone hawking Thomas Kincaide paintings to be. You know, Christian snotty.