{"id":84418,"date":"2023-02-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84418"},"modified":"2023-02-08T05:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:44:52","slug":"deathless-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84418","title":{"rendered":"Deathless Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The art dealer representing Hunter Biden<\/a> said the president’s son had the potential to be one of the most influential painters of the modern era<\/strong>, but declined to say whether he’d cooperate with a congressional<\/a> investigation into sales of the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georges Berg\u00e8s, who has been overseeing the sale of Biden’s paintings, said the 53-year-old would ‘become one of the most consequential artists in this century.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments came as the New York Post pressed him on whether he would comply with requests from the House Oversight Committee, which asked to see the names of individuals who purchased Biden’s artwork and the price they paid for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s art. You wouldn’t understand, peasants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When The Post asked Berg\u00e8s whether or not he intended to cooperate, the art dealer declined to comment and instead waxed poetic about the heights of Biden’s artistic prodigy.<\/p>\n\n\n\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,’ he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘His is a story of perseverance; Hunter’s 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.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The worst thing about current events is, unlike books, you can’t skip to the end to see how i t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh. The art dealer representing Hunter Biden said the president’s son had the potential to be one of the most influential painters of the modern era, but declined to say whether he’d cooperate with a congressional investigation into sales of the art. Georges Berg\u00e8s, who has been overseeing the sale of Biden’s paintings, said the 53-year-old would ‘become one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-democrats","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84420,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions\/84420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}