If there's anything that scares the pants off the avant-garde art world, it's kitsch. Plastic statues of saints and garden Pietas, say. Or tropical landscapes spray-painted on the sides of vans.

Few things can stir up a sense of nostalgia as readily as a beautifully crafted piece of Murano art glass. Whether in the ...

After the topic was raised in another message board I was thinking about what makes art Kitsch and I started imagining --- I am a guy with very little learnin and damn proud of it. "I chew my ...

Art inspired by or intended for commercial purposes is charming yet fresh,” opines Aggarwal. Kitsch art is an acquired taste. Like sushi, it ‘grows’ on you.

Kitsch is the art equivalent of George Orwell’s “prolefeed,” mass-produced garbage news, entertaining and titillating, distributed to the uneducated to distract them and keep them stupid.

When we decided to do an episode about hotel art, we thought we would be doing an episode about, well, hotel art—exactly the sort of ugly, shoddy, cheap paintings that used to hang in Super 8s.

Art Kehinde Wiley is selling kitsch The algorithm of the celebrated painter of Barack Obama’s portrait goes haywire in this San Francisco show ...

Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and ...

Last week, in an exhibition called Kunst en Kitsch (Art and Claptrap), Director Wijsenbeek gave the public some pointers on what a well-appointed house should be.

I love really bad sculptures of the rich and famous. They’re a special, taste-defying genre of their own, more interesting — and somehow more mind-deranging — than the deliberately kitsch ...