Mark Elliott, the current chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Orlando Museum of Art issued the following statement earlier today, concerning the state of the Loch Haven-based art museum and its legal struggles in the wake of the 2022 “Basqui-not” exhibition scandal.
The statement comes after a report from Orlando Sentinel‘s Matt Palm shared that the museum was feeling a “financial crunch” caused by its ongoing legal battles and struggles to comply with four separate grand jury subpoenas related to exhibiting artworks that were falsely attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat – which is labeled as a Federal crime.
The statement shares that Orlando Museum of Art will be dismissing its claims against several defendants, including Pierce O’Donnell, John Leo Mangan III, William Michael Force, Taryn Burns, the Basquiat Venice Collection Group, and the MJL Family Trust while maintaining its claims against former museum Aaron De Groft.
Read the full statement below.
The Orlando Museum of Art (Website), which is in its 100th year of operations, will be hosting a special exhibition later this month of selected works from its collection that it has acquired since its founding in 1924.
