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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in ...

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The former director of the Orlando Museum of Art, Aaron De Groft ... him in relation to potentially fake Jean-Michael Basquiat artworks. De Groft is said to have died from a brief illness.

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) ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aaron De Groft, the former director of the Orlando Museum of Art and subject of scandal and FBI investigation over fraudulent Jean-Michel Basquiat artworks, has died, according to an obituary ...

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Aaron De Groft, the art historian, curator and museum director whose career was derailed by his involvement in an exhibition of what turned out to be fake Jean-Michel Basquiat works at the Orlando ...