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Here's looking at you, "Kid"
Is 4-year-old Marla Olmstead a painting prodigy or the instrument of a hoax? "My Kid Could Paint That" asks fascinating questions about art, family and journalistic ethics.
By Andrew O'Hehir [2007-10-06]

  • I don't get any of it

    The paintings...

    are way cool. That's for sure.

    Are they orders of magnitude more cool than any other paintings done by any other four-year-old with access to fingerpaints and nice paper?

    This is what I don't get about the whole thing. What makes her paintings "masterpieces", but the equally "abstract" finger-paintings and brush paintings and teddy-bear-head sticker art by every other little kid just regular kid-art?

    -- KitchenGirl
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    Friday, October 5, 2007 07:24 PM
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