Kid Critics
What do Kids Think of This Sculpture?
6/27/2025 | 2m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
9 Year Old Kai introduces us to Yoshitomo Nara's "Your Dog"
Art is for everyone and everyone is a critic. Let’s see what kids have to say about some of our cities most iconic art works, in a series that gives permission for audiences of all ages to become art connoisseurs in their own right. In this episode, 9 Year Old Kai introduces us to Yoshitomo Nara's "Your Dog" part of the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Collection.
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Kid Critics is a local public television program presented by TPT
Kid Critics
What do Kids Think of This Sculpture?
6/27/2025 | 2m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Art is for everyone and everyone is a critic. Let’s see what kids have to say about some of our cities most iconic art works, in a series that gives permission for audiences of all ages to become art connoisseurs in their own right. In this episode, 9 Year Old Kai introduces us to Yoshitomo Nara's "Your Dog" part of the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Collection.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- There's always gonna be this one silly part in every piece of art that grown-ups don't see.
When you're younger, your vision is better, so, yeah.
(upbeat music) (whimsical music) - Pause.
Mark.
(clapperboard clacks) - [Interviewer] How does art sometimes make you feel?
- Happy.
- Happy.
- Silly.
- Silly.
Every kind of feeling.
- Some grownups, and probably most grownups, forget how to feel about paintings.
- They just see how it looks cool, but we just see, like, what the colors feel.
They don't really, like, feel the feelings inside the paint.
(bright music) - My name is Kai and I'm nine years old.
This piece is called "Your Dog."
- (gasping) That's a puppy.
- I think it feels excited for me.
- He's funny.
(chuckling) - A what?
- Aww, so cute.
- That's a huge one.
- It's a really bright nose, like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
- But he's not a reindeer, he's a dog.
- Yeah.
(giggling) - Woof, woof, woof.
(panting) - Wish I could ride on it.
- [Abbie] I think what really is exciting about listening to kids talk about artwork is they have such an amazing imagination.
- [Kai] I remember it being.
- [Abbie] What do you remember?
- [Kai] Shorter.
- [Abbie] You think he was shorter the last time you him?
- I just wanna crawl through it.
(Abbie laughing) - [Abbie] I can understand that completely.
- Yoshitomo Nara is so lucky.
He could do anything he wanted with the sculpture.
- [Abbie] He could?
- [Kai] Yeah, because he made it himself.
- [Abbie] Yeah.
What else can you tell me about the artist?
- [Kai] I'm pretty sure he's Japanese.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
That's right.
- I'm half-Japanese and half-American.
Yeah, it's my favorite actually because it shows Japan and America, right?
- The colors is white and red.
And the white represents, I'm pretty sure the flag.
The red is a little dot.
Like, it represents these sort of mythical creature that they put at the front of Japanese shrines in Japan to act, like, for the act of guardians.
- [Abbie] That's exactly right.
Why do you think he made him so big?
- Because it's supposed to be like a dog through the eyes of a child, very large.
- I love it.
- We both like it that it's big.
- This is a absolutely masterpiece.
Splendid.
- I don't want that dog to eat me.
(giggling)
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