In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art ...

In an excerpt from ‘The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York,’ author Elon Green recounts the young artist’s killing at the hands of police and its impact ...

Orlando Museum of Art and family of late director fired over Basquiat forgery scandal drop lawsuits After Aaron De Groft’s death last month, the museum and his family do not find it “prudent ...

Ex-Orlando art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died Aaron De Groft negotiated to have the Orlando Museum of Art be the first institution to display more than two ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — 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 ...

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 several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died.

Aaron De Groft became executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art in 2021 following art museum administration jobs elsewhere.

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 ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat painting ‘Warrior’ / Twitter As theGRIO reported, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s untimely death in 1988 has not ended the reverence that art collectors have for his work.

Annina Nosei, the former Basquiat dealer, told me that within a year or two of the artist’s death, she discovered that a well-known gallerist—who’d worked closely with him—had sold a ...

Now at New York City’s Brant Foundation, the Basquiat x Warhol Exhibition revisits the creative collaboration of two of the […] The post ‘Basquiat x Warhol’ revives a prolific creative ...

Friends of Basquiat are furious with the late artist’s relatives, who have been commercializing his art on products he wouldn't approve.