Yes, the museum went after one of its own volunteers and donors. FBI agents seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their ...

Top Orlando Museum of Art staff members felt bullied and threatened. Board members were clueless about the museum director’s conduct, while their chairwoman kept news of FBI subpoenas from them ...

It is not going to be easy. The museum has canceled the next three exhibitions planned by its former director, Aaron De Groft, who brought in the Basquiat show and who was fired by the board of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former executive director of a Florida museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings filed ...

All 25 works in the museum’s Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition were seized by the F.B.I. An affidavit called into question their origin and their authenticity. By Brett Sokol and Matt Stevens The ...

In early 2022, 25 of the pieces, all attributed to Basquiat, made their public debut at the Orlando Museum of Art, or OMA, a 100-year-old institution whose past shows have included works by ...

When Chaédria LaBouvier embarked on the Guggenheim Museum to curate the exhibition for “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story,” she made history, knocking down “firsts” like ...

Mumford died in 2018. At the time of his museum’s exhibit, De Groft repeatedly insisted that the Basquiat art was legitimate. An FBI search warrant said that De Groft sent an email to an ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is set to showcase a unique pairing of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy. Opening later this month, the year-long exhibition will ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened a new exhibition titled “Basquiat X Banksy” Sept. 29 as part of the museum’s 50th-anniversary season. Hakimah Cambell, a visitor at the ...

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 ...