Posted on 07/12/2021 2:09:29 PM PDT by mcenedo
White House press secretary Jen Psaki had the misfortune of having to show her face to answer questions at a press conference Friday, which led to this Orwellian exchange:
Q: “Did the White House play any role in crafting the sales agreement with the New York gallery to protect the … purchasers’ identity?”
Psaki: “Well, I can tell you that after careful consideration, a system has been established that allows for Hunter Biden to work in his profession within reasonable safeguards. Of course, he has the right to pursue an artistic career, just like any child [ahem, he’s 51] of a president has the right to pursue a career … The gallerist will not share information about buyers or prospective buyers, including their identities, with Hunter Biden or the administration, which provides quite a level of protection and transparency.”
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I thought she could obfuscate better than this. Tough to cover up this obvious scam. Paintings selling for between $75k and $500K - ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????
They see it, they just don’t want to report it.
So, money laundering in plain sight. Kind of cool.
Don’t for get 10% for the Big Guy. Or maybe 50% in this case.
Guess what would have happened if Trump Jr did this ,LOL
His profession is money-laundering and scamming.
“ Media fails to see the poor ethics of Hunter Biden’s art career “
No…
The Media wants US to fail to see the poor ethics
of Hunter Biden’s art career
~Easy
About 4 years ago, a few government employees stayed at a Trump Hotel somewhere. The media were all over it. “Ethics violation! Emoluments clause! Donald Trump is enriching himself and his family by taking advantage of his government position!!”
Hunter Biden? Getting $500,000 for a childish daubing of paint? Well, no one sees anything odd about that ...
Media fails to see the poor ethics of Hunter Biden’s art career:
The reason being that they are just about as dumb and screwed up as he is, no surprise.
ATT, Comcast, and Disney don’t GAS.
These three corporations are destroying the Country through the lies, misinformation, omissions, and outright hatred expressed in their malicious news properties.
CNN probably bought a few paintings.
Since when is this asshat an "artist". I guess anyone can claim they are an artist but to get the kind of $'s being mentioned is obscene, even by Clinton standards
No, they're not dumb, they're corrupt, they know exactly what is happening. They also knew the story about what was on Hunter's laptop was true when they covered it up for two months prior to the election in order to help throw the election to Biden.
The lengths the media have gone to in order to cover up the Biden's corruption approach RICO levels of organized crime. If we had a real justice department much of the media would be in jail for collusion with the democratic party to cover up organized crime.
Some of them are probably snortin’ buddies
The gallerist will not share information about buyers or prospective buyers, including their identities, with Hunter Biden or the administration, which provides quite a level of protection and transparency.”
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That is the polar opposite of transparent. Transparent would be the public would know who purchased any of those ridiculous paintings.
The see it. They just ignore it.
When you are democrat you get a bye, no matter how bad the crime up to and including murder.
Funny then I wonder why this listing is out there.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Hunter_Biden/11340049/Hunter_Biden.aspx?shp=hunter%20biden
Facts about Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden
Born: 1970
Known for: Mixed media decorative abstract painting
Name variants: RH Biden, Robert Hunter Biden
Biography from the Archives of askART
“There’s a New Artist in Town. The Name Is Biden. Hunter Biden, his name forever linked to President Trump’s impeachment, says painting “is literally keeping me sane” after years of addiction and poor choices.” Online, The New York Times, by Adam Popescu, Feb. 28, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Dressed in Oxford boots, jeans and a long sleeve T-shirt, Hunter Biden ushered a reporter down a stone walkway, into a pool house-turned-art studio in the Hollywood Hills.
It was filled with colorful works of decorative abstraction — psychedelic florals and ethereal patterns that look like nature viewed through a microscope, leaning toward the surreal. There were nearly 100 of them, all by his own hand. Some were signed RH Biden, for Robert Hunter Biden, the 50-year-old son of the former vice president.
“What do you see?” he asked, shifting bottles of ink and a bamboo wok brush.
The more critical question might be: How does it look to the outside world?
For an “unknown” artist, his name is very well known, for all the wrong reasons.
President Trump’s request for foreign help to investigate Mr. Biden’s role with a Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, set the president’s impeachment in motion. Republicans continue to press for a separate investigation into Mr. Biden’s work for the firm. Democrats worry that his curious overseas dealings could pose a threat to his father’s presidential campaign, should he rally back to front-runner status in the March primaries.
Hunter Biden was not certain what the world might say of his new pursuit, but he maintained he was serious. He said he had made a lot of mistakes in his life — he has spoken openly about his history of drug addiction — but becoming an artist, he said, wasn’t an impulsive decision.
Painting “is literally keeping me sane,” he said. “For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now I feel comfortable saying it.”
As an undiscovered artist, he is better situated than most: living in a rented, 2,000-square-foot house in the Hollywood Hills off Mulholland Drive, with a Porsche Panamera in the driveway, plenty of natural light and a pool house he has transformed into an art studio.
From the edge of the sloping property — it was leased for $12,000 a month starting last June 15, according to the homeowner — he has a view onto the San Fernando Valley below: Burbank and Universal Studios to the east, the 405 freeway to the west.
“See that red barn?” He pointed at a farmhouse perched on the next mountain top — it belongs to the artist David Hockney, he said — then focused on four red-tailed hawks rising on pockets of hot air, a technique called thermal soaring. “Look at that,” he said, craning his neck. “I see them every day. I love watching them.”
In the early mornings, he paints in silence in a studio with a TV that does not get cable news. At midday, “I have a rough idea of a finished product, I take a break” and blast country music. “Right now a lot of Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Sound & Fury,’” he said during a reporter’s visit last fall.
After the break, he goes back to work, always drawing from memory, never models. Buried in layers of ink were twisting faces and organs, warm yellows to melancholy blues and angry reds — morphing shapes within shapes. He said it can take 14 layers of alcohol ink for the material to adhere to the nearly indestructible Japanese Yupo paper he uses as his canvasses. He blows the ink with a metal straw — it is fast-drying and “has a natural progression, and you have to be really focused in order to be able to alter it to your own imagination,” he said.
Some of his images looked eerily reminiscent of the artist, and his father, but the suggestion was rejected: “They’re no one.”
His fingers and forearms were paint stained, blacks and reds deep under his nails, flecks on his jeans and boots, something his wife, Melissa Cohen, whom he married in May after a week-long courtship, can’t stand. “I always get my pants dirty,” he said. “I don’t even notice it, but Melissa hates it.”
Ms. Cohen, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child, is a South African-born filmmaker in her early 30s who lived in Israel for several years. The day after their first date, Mr. Biden tattooed the Hebrew word “shalom” — for peace — on his left bicep, giving the couple matching tattoos. (He also has a tattoo of New York’s Finger Lakes region on his back, because his mother grew up there.) “It’s very abstract, sometimes very dark,” Ms. Cohen said of her husband’s art. “It draws a lot from nature.”
Mr. Biden set out late last year to find gallery representation with the help of Lanette Phillips, who is not a typical artist’s agent. She’s a video producer who ran a management company with clients including Quentin Tarantino and Darren Aronofsky. A longtime Biden family friend, she hosted a star-studded fund-raiser for the former vice president last November at the Pacific Palisades home she shares with Rick Lynch, a partner in an entertainment marketing firm. Mr. Biden did not sign with a gallery, and Ms. Phillips said this week that she is no longer advising him, but Mr. Biden is still setting his sights on exhibiting his work.
Normally, the art world is a fine place to make the right friends, attend the right parties, a venue more forgiving than Washington, D.C. But Mr. Biden could have a challenge convincing the public that the word “artist” belongs in his CV, coming after his careers as a lawyer, lobbyist and director of private equity firms.
He has no formal training as an artist, but he said that he has sketched off and on since age 7, and that he wasn’t dabbling: “It’s something I’ve taken seriously for a long time but hasn’t necessarily been for public consumption.”
Will the Biden name turn the art world off, or make it more interested?
“Probably both,” said the collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, the president of the Rudin Family Foundations and board member of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hammer Museum.
Ms. DeWoody had not seen Mr. Biden’s paintings, but she said she “loves the idea” of this unknown jumping in. “There’s probably going to be a lot of curiosity,” she said. “If he turns out to be a great artist.”
Michael Kohn, who owns Los Angeles’ Kohn Gallery, wasn’t so sure.
“Too much baggage,” he said, comparing Mr. Biden to actors like Sylvester Stallone or Michael York who tried to cross over but failed to achieve critical success. “The transition doesn’t work because the public perception has been established.”
“Depending on his skill level, the paintings could be quite good,” Mr. Kohn added. “However, it will be a long time before he will break into the art world as I and my colleagues know it.”
Painting as Therapy
For years, vodka and cocaine were constant companions. Mr. Biden has talked often of facing the twin demons of addiction and personal loss. His mother Neilia and sister Naomi died in a 1972 car wreck, in which 2-year-old Hunter suffered a severe head injury.
Later, as he looked to escape temptations, the painting became therapeutic, he said. So did writing poems and short stories (he was accepted into Syracuse University’s creative writing program in 1993, but chose law school). Recently, he said, he has been writing letters to his deceased brother Beau, who succumbed to brain cancer in 2015, a loss that sent Mr. Biden off on a four year nightmare.
Hey Jen, what is Hunter's profession, exactly?
Why aren’t we hearing more about what’s on the laptop?
Rudy apparently has a copy of everything and so do others.
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