ORLANDO, Fla. — Former trustees of Orlando Museum of Art say they were kept in the dark about the FBI’s interest in the now infamous exhibition of purported Basquiat artworks — and that museum leadership ignored their plea to make that clear to the public.
Furthermore, they say when they called a meeting to discuss board chair Cynthia Brumback’s handling of the situation, they were “terminated” through a previously unenforced rule on term limits.
Ted Brown, an attorney with Holland & Knight and longtime board member, was one of five trustees dismissed from the board via email because they had served more than the nine-year maximum stipulated in the bylaws.
