{"id":14506,"date":"2023-01-25T20:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T03:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=14506"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:17:06","slug":"hunter-bidens-very-first-art-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/hunter-bidens-very-first-art-investigation.html","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden\u2019s very first art investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hunter Biden was first a performance artist, seen here in his \u201cbody art\u201d piece titled Beautiful Things<\/em>. His \u201cendurance art\u201d conceptual work titled Laptop from Hell<\/em> examined the influence and limitations of his family name. Hunter finally became a postmodern painter, using a straw to blow ink around on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Oct. 14, 2021 Hunter Biden showed his stupefyingly expensive but unskilled artworks at Milk Studios in Hollywood, California. Soon after the show I wrote an unflattering review titled Hunter Biden\u2019s very first art exhibit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s art career has certainly garnered much attention since then, in large part due to the efforts of Georges Berg\u00e8s, the Manhattan gallerist who represents Hunter.<\/p>\n

Berg\u00e8s organized the Hollywood exhibition, where an anonymous buyer purchased five of Hunter\u2019s prints for a whopping $375,000. The asking price for a few of Hunter\u2019s paintings was $500,000\u2014an inconceivable price for a fledgling artist at their first show.<\/p>\n

It is not known if any of those half-a-million canvases sold, since Berg\u00e8s struck a deal with the White House, to keep the identity of buyers secret from Hunter and the press in order to prevent \u201cethical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

It almost makes one think anonymous buyers were acquiring Hunter\u2019s amateurish scrawls just to curry favor with the \u201cBig Guy\u201d in the White House. But such ethics violations couldn\u2019t possibly happen under the administration of good ol\u2019 Scranton Joe. Why he promised to, ahem… \u201cbring transparency and truth back to the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the present and we have Hunter Biden\u2019s very first art investigation<\/em>. It appears that Hunter\u2019s art world gimmickry has finally garnered the attention of scornful art critics<\/a> at the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability\u2014the main investigative committee of the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 25, 2023 the Chairman of the House committee, James Comer, sent a letter to Georges Berg\u00e8s, it reads in part:<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Berg\u00e8s:<\/p>\n

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating President Joe Biden and his family\u2019s foreign and domestic influence peddling schemes. During the 117th Congress, Committee Republicans wrote to you requesting information regarding your gallery\u2019s sale of artwork by the President\u2019s son, Robert Hunter Biden. You did not respond to these requests, but you have since hosted another Hunter Biden art exhibit at your SoHo gallery. The Committee is reiterating its request for documents related to the Committee\u2019s investigation of the Biden family and is requesting you appear for a transcribed interview.<\/p>\n

For over a decade, the Biden family has profited from Joe Biden\u2019s positions as a public official. Your arrangement with Hunter Biden raises serious ethics concerns and calls into question whether the Biden family is again selling access and influence. Despite being a novice artist, Hunter Biden received exorbitant amounts of money selling his artwork, the buyers\u2019 identities remain unknown, and you appear to be the sole record keeper of these lucrative transactions.<\/p>\n

For example, you have advertised that Hunter Biden\u2019s latest artwork ranges in price from $55,000 to $225,000. It is concerning that President Biden\u2019s son is the recipient of anonymous, high-dollar transactions\u2014potentially from foreign buyers\u2014with no accountability or oversight (other than you). The American people deserve transparency regarding certain details about Hunter Biden\u2019s expensive art transactions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Committee\u2019s letter to Mr. Berg\u00e8s proclaimed: \u201cWe believe you possess important information related to this investigation. As such, please produce the following documents to Committee Republicans as soon as possible, but no later than February 8, 2023.\u201d The letter provided a list of seven documents the committee expects to receive from Berg\u00e8s\u2014including \u201cDocuments sufficient to show who attended the opening of Hunter Biden\u2019s art shows,\u201d and documents that \u201cshow who purchased Hunter Biden\u2019s artwork.\u201d Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

The letter closed with an exhortation that Berg\u00e8s should make himself \u201cavailable for a transcribed interview with Committee staff\u201d prior to Feb. 15, 2023.<\/p>\n

The entire unedited letter to Georges Berg\u00e8s from the Committee on Oversight and Accountability has been posted online by the House of Representatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong> On Jan. 26, 2023 art dealer Georges Berg\u00e8s responded to House Oversight Committee demands for documents in a statement he made to Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“At the moment I cannot comment and I will refer you to my legal counsel but know that my singular focus has always been, and will continue to be, the integrity of our artists and the privacy of our art collectors.<\/p>\n

I represent Hunter Biden because I feel that not only his art merits my representation, but because his personal narrative, which gives birth to his art, is very much needed in the world. His is a story of perseverance; Hunter\u2019s story reflects what I believe is the beauty of humanity, judged not by the fall, but by having the strength to rise up, by having the character required to change and the courage to do it. Hunter Biden\u2019s art reflects all of that and more. His art gives us hope; it reminds us that tomorrow brings a new day, a new beginning, a new possibility. Hunter Biden will become one of the most consequential artists in this century because the world needs his art now more than ever. In a world that beats us down, we need art in our lives that reminds of the unrelenting divinity within each of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Oct. 14, 2021 Hunter Biden showed his stupefyingly expensive but unskilled artworks at Milk Studios in Hollywood, California. Soon after the show I wrote an unflattering review titled Hunter Biden\u2019s very first art exhibit. Hunter\u2019s art career has certainly garnered much attention since then, in large part due to the efforts of Georges Berg\u00e8s, the Manhattan gallerist who represents…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postmodernism-remodernism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}