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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installation view of "Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Thaddeus Mumford, Jr. Venice Collection" at the Orlando Museum of Art, 2022. Photo courtesy of the OMA. Brian Boucher January 22 ...

Visitors to the avant-garde carnival at the Shed were mostly undeterred by the Basquiat Ferris wheel and other attractions ...