June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 45m
English

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Directed by Amir Bar-Lev
Edited by Michael Levine and John W. Walter
My Kid Could Paint That is a 2007 documentary that tells the story of Marla Olmstead, a 4-year-old girl whose abstract paintings begin selling for tens of thousands of dollars on the New York art market. The film, as rendered by its director Amir Bar-Lev and editors Michael Levine and John W. Walter, contains a fascinating narrative about what happens when the true authorship of the paintings is questioned; it also becomes a meditation on authenticity, meaning, ...
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