In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibit of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries.

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 ...

“My reputation is at stake as well,” De Groft told The New York Times in February 2021, shortly after Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Thaddeus Mumford, Jr. Venice Collection ...

53 x 40 in. (134.6 x 101.6 cm.) ...

Basquiat, who lived and worked in New York City, found success in the 1980s as part of the neo-Expressionism movement. Questions about the artworks’ authenticity arose almost immediately after ...

Works drawn from the museum’s collection scrutinize the aftermath of human intervention in the landscape, blending personal narratives with broader societal and ecological concerns.

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 ...

138.5 x 100.5 cm. (54.5 x 39.6 in.) ...

New York’s City Council passed a bill to limit top city officials from lobbying city agencies after leaving government. It was inspired by Frank Carone, an adviser to Mayor Eric Adams.

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