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🎄Celebrate ‘SWIFTmas’ with Taylor Swift inspired trees, wreaths at Festival of Trees in Orlando
Read full article: 🎄Celebrate ‘SWIFTmas’ with Taylor Swift inspired trees, wreaths at Festival of Trees in OrlandoThis year's event features more than 50 decorative trees, wreaths and gingerbread displays. Proceeds support Orlando Museum of Art.
📖 This Orlando art exhibit celebrating Little Golden Books will take you back to childhood
Read full article: 📖 This Orlando art exhibit celebrating Little Golden Books will take you back to childhood"Golden Legacy: 80 Years of Original Art from Golden Books" to be at Orlando Museum of Art Sept. 6 – Dec. 1.
Former CEO at center of fake Basquiats scandal countersues Orlando museum, claiming he is being scapegoated
Read full article: Former CEO at center of fake Basquiats scandal countersues Orlando museum, claiming he is being scapegoatedA former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is filing counterclaims against the museum.
Florida art museum sues former director over forged Basquiat paintings scheme
Read full article: Florida art museum sues former director over forged Basquiat paintings schemeA central Florida art museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the sale of the fake artwork.
Orlando Museum of Art files lawsuit against former director over faked-painting scheme
Read full article: Orlando Museum of Art files lawsuit against former director over faked-painting schemeThe lawsuit claims that De Groft was persuaded to join in the “conspiracy” by promising De Groft a “significant cut of the proceeds of the anticipated multimillion-dollar sale.”
‘An inspiration:’ Pulse survivors react to mural unveiled 7 years after shooting
Read full article: ‘An inspiration:’ Pulse survivors react to mural unveiled 7 years after shootingAs many across Orlando remember and honor the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting and their loved ones, artists are taking their story and turning it into a moving message with a mural.
Orlando Museum of Art announces interim executive director, CEO
Read full article: Orlando Museum of Art announces interim executive director, CEOThe Orlando Museum of Art announced a new interim executive director and CEO Monday nearly a year after its former leader left following the FBI seizure of fraudulent paintings displayed in the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit.
Man agrees to plead guilty in Basquiat artwork fraud scheme
Read full article: Man agrees to plead guilty in Basquiat artwork fraud schemeA former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
REPORT: Auctioneer helped create fake paintings at Orlando Museum of Art, records show
Read full article: REPORT: Auctioneer helped create fake paintings at Orlando Museum of Art, records showA Los Angeles auctioneer agreed to plead guilty in a criminal case involving an FBI raid at the Orlando Museum of Art during June of last year, according to The New York Times.
🌼Gowns made of hundreds of flowers featured at Orlando museum fundraiser
Read full article: 🌼Gowns made of hundreds of flowers featured at Orlando museum fundraiserWould you wear a gown made of flowers? The floral couture is all part of the Art in Bloom, a spring fundraiser benefitting the Orlando Museum of Art.
🎄These pre-decorated Christmas trees, wreaths for sale benefitting Orlando art programs
Read full article: 🎄These pre-decorated Christmas trees, wreaths for sale benefitting Orlando art programsIt’s an event that not only gets you in the holiday spirit, but benefits art education programs at the Orlando Museum of Art.
Orlando Museum of Art considering new leadership, officials say
Read full article: Orlando Museum of Art considering new leadership, officials sayInterim Director Luder Whitlock of the Orlando Museum of Art resigned from his position as the museum considers a permanent change in leadership, according to OMA officials.
Orlando Museum of Art organizes exhibition task force following Basquiat FBI raid, director departure
Read full article: Orlando Museum of Art organizes exhibition task force following Basquiat FBI raid, director departureThe Orlando Museum of Art announced the organization of an exhibition task force nearly two months after the FBI raided and seized works the museum displayed and claimed were created by Jean-Michele Basquiat.
Public calling for transparency after Orlando Museum of Art raided by FBI
Read full article: Public calling for transparency after Orlando Museum of Art raided by FBICounty, city and art-community leaders are calling for transparency after the Orlando Museum of Art came under fire from a recent raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
CEO and Florida museum part ways following Basquiat raid
Read full article: CEO and Florida museum part ways following Basquiat raidThe Orlando Museum of Art has parted ways with its CEO in the days after the FBI raided the Florida museum and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Orlando Museum of Art announces change in directors following investigation
Read full article: Orlando Museum of Art announces change in directors following investigationFollowing a raid by the FBI where investigators seized the Orlando Museum of Art’s Basquiat exhibit, museum officials have announced a change in leadership.
FBI seizes disputed Basquiat artwork from Florida museum
Read full article: FBI seizes disputed Basquiat artwork from Florida museumThe FBI raided a Florida art museum on Friday and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity.
Restocking photos: Florida woman works to bring Black representation to stock images
Read full article: Restocking photos: Florida woman works to bring Black representation to stock imagesGAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kenya Robinson remembers working on a marketing campaign and searching for a stock image of a Black woman wrapping her hands for kickboxing. With over 18,000 stock photos coming up in her search, she couldn’t find the look she needed. Now she’s on a mission to restock image databases with photos of visibly Black individuals with BLIXEL:(Re)stock Image Project. “The whole idea is to address this whole notion of the stock image and kind of the role that it plays and how we might restock that,” she said. The dream is to one day release a stock image service for companies to subscribe to, and to pay her volunteers and photographers.
Black Theatre Girl Magic helps put women of color in the spotlight
Read full article: Black Theatre Girl Magic helps put women of color in the spotlight“I looked completely different because they don’t know how to shoot and film women of color, they don’t know how to shoot brown bodies,” she said. The professional performer says that experience is just one of many barriers Black women have to break through to pursue a career in the arts. From sharing stories with other women online about washed-out headshots, having to dye dance tights to match one’s skin tone, and discussing hairstyles fit for stage lights came a new community that has evolved today to become the nonprofit Black Theatre Girl Magic. “We started in 2017 as just a small network for Black and brown performing women in Central Florida. Black Theater Girl Magic (Copyright 2020 by CNN Newsource - All rights reserved.)