Lost Arts

Portrait of the artist as a broke man:

Hunter laments: “In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000.” If that lone artwork that Hunter has sold since Dec. 2023 sold at any time after Nov. 5, 2024, I have a very fine bridge to sell to the buyer: after all, it seems clear that the buyers of Hunter’s paintings were actually buying access to Old Joe Biden, and after the election, the Bidens have no influence to peddle. And so now the game is over, and Bergès has quietly purged Hunter’s name and bio from its artists roster. If any other artist who had been touted as producing work that was “not only good” but “important,” and who had been billed as “one of the most consequential artists in this century,” had suddenly disappeared from the art world, the artistic community would be abuzz with worry and speculation. But everyone knows what is going on here. Hunter Biden was never really an artist in the first place, and only the most credulous and ideologically blinkered ever thought otherwise. It’s not even clear that he actually produced the artworks that were marketed under his name: his paintings showed so much stylistic divergence from one another that they raised questions about whether he had more than one ghost artist turning them out for him. You can see for yourself. Now you — yes, you! — can own a piece of history. You can get your very own Hunter Biden print for prices as low as fifteen bucks at this site. That site suggests that the whole thing is a put-on by featuring as a photo of the artist a famous shot of a dissolute, shirtless, cigarette-puffing Hunter taken from his notorious laptop. Now you don’t have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for one of Hunter’s unforgettable creations, but of course, you don’t get an audience with The Big Guy, either. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

Now he has to find some other way to pay for his cocaine...