okebet On the Eve of Trump’s Sentencing, an Unusual Art Gallery Opening

It was a bitterly cold January evening the night before President-elect Donald J. Trump was set to be sentenced in a Lower Manhattan courtroom, and an unusual array of figures was gathered in an art gallery in Chinatown that was filled with sketches from his trial.

He went on to criticize Ms. Winfrey’s interview with Ms. Harris on Thursday — which featured a number of celebrities and drew hundreds of thousands of viewers — writing, “I couldn’t help but think this isn’t the real Oprah.”

They were there for the opening of the artist Isabelle Brourman’s show “Paper Trail,” a collection of the works she created when she joined the courtroom sketch artists documenting the political theater surrounding Mr. Trump’s court battles last year in New York.

“Seeing her work is like watching HBO for the first time: You can do that?” said the MSNBC news anchor Lawrence O’Donnell, who stopped by the opening before returning to work that evening in preparation for Mr. Trump’s sentencing. He had interviewed Ms. Brourman last spring about her unique way of drawing the once and future president in a courtroom setting.

empire slotsImageThe MSNBC news anchor Lawrence O’Donnell came to see Ms. Brourman’s exhibition after witnessing her at work in court.Credit...Graham Dickie/The New York Times

Ms. Brourman, 31,aaajili casino rarely missed a day at Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial, capturing Mr. Trump in a frenetic, highly personal style populated by scribbled testimony and wild hand gestures. In that trial, a judge found Mr. Trump liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and lying about the value of his properties to receive more favorable terms on loans.

She went on to sketch his Manhattan criminal trial, where he was convicted on charges of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his 2016 campaign.

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