"I don’t paint from emotion or feeling, which I think are both very ephemeral... For me, painting is much more about kind of trying to bring forth what is, I think, the universal truth. The universal truth is that everything is connected and that there’s something that goes far beyond what is our five senses and that connects us all."
Babbled Hunter Biden, quoted in "Hunter Biden’s artwork is actually good and will be worth a lot, experts say" (NY Post).
Is art about showing that everything is connected? Interestingly, there was a Metropolitan Museum exhibition on precisely that topic not long ago (though, I don't think it's at all what was flitting through the Biden-brain when the words quoted above tumbled out). But it's a better subject than Hunter's dabblings, so check it out:
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Jeff writes: "Everything is connected? Well, certainly Hunter Biden is."
Susan puts it this way: "It doesn't matter what Hunter Biden babbles. He isn't selling any art, he's laundering money."
Ozymandias says:
There is something essentially paranoid about the belief that everything is connected to everything else.” Literary critic James Wood (perhaps anticipating The Met show).
As for Hunter, presumably he’s got himself a new publicist.
Dave Begley writes:
I can't recall who said it (maybe Andy Warhol), but art is what you can get away with it. The NFT craze is a perfect example.
Hunter's art is a pure bribe scheme; along with his book. Doesn't he have enough money? Is he paying extra child support for his bastard child in Arkansas?
Mezzrow writes:
This is the point at which the grift turns into art, in so many ways. Hats off to Hunter. I can imagine the cast and writers of Shameless (imagine Bill Macy/Frank Shaughnessey as Joe Biden!) riffing on this as a continuing plot line, ending up at Christie’s with millions flying around like gnats at a picnic. It sums up the enterprise as accurately as anything else I can conceive. Just think of it, Althouse.
My plea to the Gods of Art is to make it so. Best to you and M.
You know, I have a Rothko tag. But I refuse to dignify this post with it.
"Frank Gallagher. It’s an old brain. You know who I meant" — Mezzrow adds.
Robert writes:
Susan puts it this way: "It doesn't matter what Hunter Biden babbles. He isn't selling any art, he's laundering money."
Not that I have any love for Hunter Biden, but I think it is pertinent that conviction for laundering money does not appear on Hunter's rap sheet despite the many investigations conducted so far; however Donald Trump's conviction record does include the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network-imposed $10 million civil money penalty in March 2015 against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, for willful and repeated violations (i.e. money-laundering) of the Bank Secrecy Act. Trump Taj Mahal (surprise, surprise) was shut in October 2016.
Stay tuned for continuation of the combined investigation into Trump racketeering by the State of New York and the Manhattan DA as well as potential action from Scottish Ministers on the unexplained wealth that funded Trump's cash purchases of the Turnberry and Balmedie golf properties.
Peter writes: "You missed a “garner” in the linked post..."
Temujin writes:
To Hunter, to Joe, and to Joe's brother James, being connected is everything. When Hunter says everything is connected, he's offering an invitation to connect with The Biden Group- a known advisory group based in Washington DC. They have the connections to move things for companies, to arrange things that are positive for businesses, domestic or foreign. Or, if not for the business, for the owners of the business. This is what they do. And here's how they do it now:
Hunter, with vast experience snorting things up a straw, is now creating art by blowing things out of a straw and selling those pieces of shite to those willing to bid for...a chance to be connected.
It is the same Biden game, only this time dressed up as art. And so, the media can swoon. They can swoon over a drug-addled, alcoholic, prostitute chasing, wife-stealing bonehead crooked son of a bumbling American politician.
We've come a long way since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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