The school says it will now assemble a committee to formalize how art collectors can and should interact with students. As the lurid details about Jeffrey Epstein’s decades of crimes against women and girls continue to trickle out, one unexplained recurring character in the saga has been the New York Academy of Art (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/new-york-academy-of-art/), a private graduate school known for its emphasis on preserving the tradition of figurative art. It is where he met the young woman who became one of his earliest known alleged victims. It crops up, decades later, in connection with a strange painting of Bill Clinton wearing a dress (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-epstein-clinton-painting-1628953), purchased from an academy fundraiser in 2012. Now, following questions about Epstein’s relationship with the school, the New York Academy of Art has promised to issue new guidelines to govern the relationships between students and collectors. Epstein was a board member at the academy from 1987 to 1994 and a regular fixture at the school during that time, according to one former student, Maria Farmer (https://www.mariafarmerart.com/). “Sometimes he would just come to the school and walk around and watch the artists. He was at every single event,” Farmer told artnet News. He was “often lurking around, … Meer lezen over Rachel Corbett & Ben Davis – Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer Says the New York Academy of Art Helped Enable the Disgraced Financier