The Orlando Museum of Art has fired its director after the FBI raided a show of allegedly fake Basquiats:
The Orlando Museum of Art Has Fired Its Director After the FBI Raided a Show of Allegedly Fake Basquiats
The Orlando Museum of Art fired director and CEO Aaron De Groft yesterday after the F.B.I. seized the contents of “Heroes and Monsters,” an exhibition of 25 works controversially attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The decision to remove De Groft was made during a meeting of board members on Tuesday morning, according to the, which cited the anonymous accounts of museum employees. Artnet News has reached out to De Groft for further comment but did not hear back at the time of publication.
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