Aaron De Groft, Museum Director Accused in Fake Basquiat Scheme, Dies at 59
In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibit of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries.
Gargantuan Iceberg on Island Collision Course: Penguins and Seals at Risk
The world's iceberg is heading for South Georgia—a wildlife haven in the South Atlantic—and scientists are worried.
Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
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 ...
Colossal 'Megaflood' Refilled Mediterranean Sea 5 Million Years Ago
"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon dwarfing any other known floods in Earth's history," an ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
How a Mass Extinction Driven by Ancient Volcanoes Led to the Age of the Dinosaurs
Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...
Coroner finds three migrants were unlawfully killed in English Channel tragedy off Dungeness
A coroner has recorded conclusions of unlawful killings at the inquests of three migrants who died when their small boat sank ...
Aaron De Groft, whose ‘Basquiat’ exhibit triggered a scandal at Orlando museum, dies at 59
Aaron De Groft, who came to central Florida to raise the profile of Orlando Museum of Art — but then embroiled the ...
The Diplomat2d
The Shrinking Caspian Sea: An Environmental and Geopolitical Emergency
Allowing the Caspian Sea to succumb to industrial exploitation and climate-induced desiccation would be an irreversible ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
On This Day in 1793, Revolutionaries Executed the King of France by Guillotine, a Deadly Machine They Saw as a Symbol of Equality
Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...
Saving lives and limbs on the high seas: the extraordinary world of early modern ship’s surgeons
They battled scurvy, amputated limbs and treated deadly fevers, all while enduring the chaos of storms and warfare.
Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage, officials say
An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic ...