Posted on 08/15/2021 3:30:31 AM PDT by Libloather
NEW YORK - The Georges Bergès Gallery has sat on a chic stretch of SoHo for six years now, a relatively little-known newcomer in a New York art world that has long been dominated by name-brand power brokers like Pace Gallery and Gagosian.
This summer, however, it has unexpectedly become one of the most talked-about galleries in the nation, thanks to its plans to sell works by another relative newcomer to the art world: a fledgling artist who happens to be the son of the president of the United States.
The gallery is planning to sell 15 works by Hunter Biden and is asking as much as $500,000 apiece. The prices - which are high for a novice artist - have raised questions in Washington about whether the works might attract buyers seeking to curry favor with the Biden White House.
In response, the administration has helped to develop a set of ethics guidelines that call on the gallery to keep the identity of buyers and other details of the sales from both the artist and the administration.
Even though the art world is widely known for its secrecy and a lack of transparency, questions remain about how the arrangement will play out in practice.
Bergès said that he believed the guidelines would work “just fine” and that the anonymity of buyers could be preserved even though Hunter Biden plans to attend the openings of his shows, which are set to take place in a private studio in Los Angeles next month and then at the Bergès Gallery in New York in October.
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The buyers are all Chinese.
Even if the White House were to be kept unaware of the purchasers names, there’s absolutely no reason that the buyers would keep silent. There’s only one reason anyone would be dumb enough to spend a half million for grade school quality “art”. That’s for the publicity. The whole world will know who they are.
I call the name of this piece..."influence"
Spit art from a crackhead.
Fixed
Money has to circulate thru the economy. And it does from
both good and evil. History just being made.
Son of a illegitimate President.
Anonymous.... Sure. Like lobbyists won’t be proudly announcing they baught a Hunter original every time they meet The Big Guy or have it hanging in their office when The Big Guy’s staff shows up. I am sure Chinese nationals will be very interested in all 15 paintings. So will China Mitch.
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