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The exterior of the Orlando Museum of Art with banners promoting its Basquiat exhibition Photo by Athena Iluz/Flickr Before he was hired to lead the OMA, De Groft had been the director of the ...

He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries. By Brett Sokol Aaron De Groft, the former director of the Orlando Museum of Art, who came to national prominence in 2022 after paintings ...

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which the FBI seized from the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) in a 2022 raid. The works’ owners—Pierce O’Donnell, Taryn Burns and William Force, known collectively as the Basquiat Venice ...