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 ...

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.

Former director Aaron De Groft, who insisted until the end that the paintings were genuine, died this month. Installation view of "Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Thaddeus Mumford ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two insurance companies have asked a court to block a $19.7 million claim by owners of more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings that were seized during an ...

and there are other interactive activities in the spirit of the original art, with actors dressed up in costumes and a play room for kids that makes it fun for all ages. There’s also a lot of ...

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 into ...

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 ...