The owners of art dramatically seized by the FBI from a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 now face a legal battle to collect their nearly $20 million insurance claim.
The exhibition showcases artistic representations of luminaries such as Frida Kahlo, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sophia Loren ...
In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries. By Brett Sokol ...
De Groft negotiated to have the Orlando Museum of Art be the first institution to display more than two dozen artworks said to have been found in an old storage locker decades after Basquiat’s ...
who was instrumental in bringing the Basquiat exhibition to the museum and fired shortly after the FBI raid. (Almost exactly a year ago, OMA dropped its lawsuit against the five people who at the ...
known collectively as the Basquiat Venice Collection Group (BVCG)—after the FBI seized the paintings in 2022 out of an exhibition at Florida’s Orlando Museum of Art. The owners say that they ...
He was 59 years old. De Groft was ousted from his role at the helm of the OMA in 2022, accused of knowingly showing fake Basquiat works in an exhibition earlier that year. The paintings were ...
Aaron De Groft, the art historian, curator and museum director whose career was derailed by his involvement in an exhibition of what turned out to be fake Jean-Michel Basquiat works at the Orlando ...
Aaron De Groft, who came to central Florida to raise the profile of Orlando Museum of Art — but then embroiled the institution in an FBI fraud investigation over purported Basquiat paintings ...
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