Hunter Biden, the beleaguered 50-year-old son of President-elect Joe Biden, is reportedly set to debut his artwork in a solo exhibition next year.
Avant garde: Biden, who is currently under a federal investigation into his business and foreign dealings, will sign with the exclusive Georges Bergès Gallery in New York City, sources told Page Six.
- Georges Bergès Gallery has galleries in SoHo and Berlin and also represents actor Sylvester Stallone.
The tortured artiste: Biden told The New York Times earlier this year that painting “is literally keeping me sane” and cited his art as an essential tool in his long-time battle against drug addiction.
- “It keeps me away from people and places where I shouldn’t be.” he told The Times.
- “The one thing I have left is my art. It’s the one thing they can’t take away from me or conflate with anything else,” Biden added.
The reaction: Conservatives have accused the media of soft-pedaling coverage of Joe Biden, in particular pointing to Twitter’s suppression of a New York Post story, which surfaced potentially damaging Hunter Biden emails.
National media outlets and mainstream pundits widely dismissed the story when it was published in October.
Many of those same outlets were forced to change their tune after the Justice Department issued a statement on Dec. 9 confirming it had launched an investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax affairs.
And this week, pundits on the right mocked how various mainstream publications chose to frame reports about Hunter Biden’s fine art debut.
Conservative commenters on Twitter slammed Vanity Fair for on Wednesday tweeting: “Hunter Biden isn’t letting the Department of Justice ruin his life.”
And some more conspiracy-minded Twitter users wondered if the art show was just another in a long string of sketchy business dealings.
“So, some professional art appraisers and an actual journalist should be able to get a feel for how legitimate the sale of his ‘art’ will be. Bribery and money laundering can happen in the art world as well as in the book publishing business and no one bats an eye,” tweeted one commenter.
