In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was ...

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 more ...

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) ...

about six years after Basquiat's death, according to the federal warrant from the museum raid. Additionally, the owner of the storage locker where the art was found, TV writer Thad Mumford ...

AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution ... probe into more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings, has died.

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 FBI ...

(AP Photo/John Raoux, File) FILE - This 1982 untitled painting by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is displayed ... storage locker decades after Basquiat’s 1988 death from a drug overdose at age ...

Aaron De Groft, the former CEO of the Orlando Museum of Art whose tenure was ultimately defined by a Basquiat forgery scandal ...

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) ...

Following successful stints at museums in Virginia and on Florida’s Gulf Coast, De Groft’s career became mired in the Basquiat fakes fiasco ...