The title of Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary, My Kid Could Paint That, comes from a sarcastic comment about abstract painting asserting that swirls of pigment on canvas are childish and uninformed. Bar-Lev ...

You know that old saying about the value of being in the right place at the right time? It goes double for documentary filmmakers. Marla Olmstead, who took the art world by storm at the tender age of ...

Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev spent almost a year filming media phenomenon Marla Olmstead for his documentary My Kid Could Paint That. The story follows Marla, who became famous at age 4 for the large, ...

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A movie that should be screened at the Muskegon Museum of Art, director Amir Bar-Lev's documentary "My Kid Could Paint That," which makes you want to bip Marla Olmstead's parents upside the head.

An irresistible subject for a documentary: The charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York whose talent for impossibly confident abstractions triggered a media frenzy and ...

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An irresistible subject for a documentary: the charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York whose talent for impossibly confident abstractions triggered a media frenzy and ...