Aaron De Groft, Museum Director Accused in Fake Basquiat Scheme, Dies at 59
In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was ...
Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
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 ...
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Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
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 ...
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Former art museum director and William & Mary alum involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
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 ...
Ex-Orlando art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
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 than two dozen ...
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Anthony Spinello is Looking for the Next Basquiat
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 ...
The Mia's podcast, 'The Object,' will become a series of live events
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is turning "The Object" podcast into live events, with the first installment arriving this week. Mia's podcast launched in 2019 and is now ready to launch its seventh ...