A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died.
The owners of works the FBI seized from the Orlando Museum of Art have filed an eight-figure claim, but the insurers say “coverage is unavailable because… the property was inauthentic”
Following successful stints at museums in Virginia and on Florida’s Gulf Coast, De Groft’s career became mired in the Basquiat fakes fiasco
Aaron De Groft, the former CEO of the Orlando Museum of Art whose tenure was ultimately defined by a Basquiat forgery scandal, died on January 18 at 59. According to an obituary published on Monday, De Groft died after a brief illness.
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 — has died.
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Mumford died in 2018. This 1982 untitled painting by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is displayed at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.. Credit: AP At the time of his museum's ...
A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died ORLANDO ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP ... by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings, has died. He was 59. De Groft died last weekend after a brief ...
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.
Spinello had recently graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York when he visited South Florida in 2002 ... being the first to represent Jean-Michel Basquiat) gave him crucial early ...
NANTICOKE — The LCCC 2025 Faculty and Alumni Art Exhibition will be presented in the Schulman Gallery of Luzerne County Community College and run from Friday, Jan. 24, through Friday, Feb. 21. The Opening Reception will be held Friday,