'My Kid Could Paint That' - or could she?
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public RadioSt. Paul, Minn. — Amir Bar-Lev's life changed the day he heard abstract paintings by a 4-year-old girl were selling for thousands of dollars.
He thought examining Marla Olmstead's story might make for a good documentary about how people decide the value of a piece of art, and whether the fact it's done by a child makes it more valuable.
But Bar-Lev soon found he'd got more than he bargained for.
Then the Olmsteads suddenly became the center of an international media backlash. Bar-Lev's film about what happened, called "My Kid Could Paint That," opens locally this weekend.
He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr some people are enraptured by Marla's huge colorful abstracts.
