Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into more than two dozen forged ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — (AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe ...

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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 ...

Basquiat, who lived and worked in New York City, found success in the 1980s as part of the neo-Expressionism movement. The Orlando Museum of Art was the first institution to display the more than ...

By Brett Sokol Aaron De Groft, the former director of the Orlando Museum of Art, who came to national prominence in 2022 after paintings he was exhibiting as the lost work of Jean-Michel Basquiat ...

Former Florida Art Museum Director Involved in Basquiat Forged Painting Probe Has Died ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution ...

Mumford died in 2018. At the time of his museum’s exhibit, De Groft repeatedly insisted that the Basquiat art was legitimate. The Orlando Museum of Art is rebounding from its cash crisis ...

FILE - The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) FILE - The entrance to an exhibit by ...