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The No. 1 quote critics give me is, “Thom, your work is irrelevant.” My art is relevant because it’s relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture.
—Thomas Kinkade, c. 1990
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- Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? The Déjà Vu blog investigates... Our Eyes Ache With Reading — Coping with information overload in the seventeenth century and the twenty-first. Should Have Sent a Poet — Wyclef Jean and Gabriele D’Annunzio are both artists turned politicians who wanted to bring a healing brand of nationalism back to their home countries. National Pastime — Lacrosse is one of the oldest games in North America, but the Iroquois national team can’t seem get off the continent for the World Championships in England.
- Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. The Wrestler Princess — The Mongolian princess who was the inspiration for Turandot rejected any man she deemed athletically inferior to her. This Tennis Life — Andre Agassi’s literary memoir is a sports book that even David Foster Wallace could have loved. Thrilla in Manila — Basketball is the dominant sport in the Philippines, where companies own the teams and bad calls aren’t tolerated by the fans.
