{"id":128941,"date":"2025-11-11T03:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128941\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:49:09","slug":"read-sasha-sudas-suit-against-the-philadelphia-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128941\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Sasha Suda&#8217;s suit against the Philadelphia Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Sasha Suda, the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/sasha-suda-philadelphia-museum-of-art-20251104.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/sasha-suda-philadelphia-museum-of-art-20251104.html\">former director and CEO<\/a> of the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/philadelphia-art-museum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Art Museum<\/a>, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/philadelphia-art-museum-sasha-suda-lawsuit-20251110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/philadelphia-art-museum-sasha-suda-lawsuit-20251110.html\">sued her former employer Monday<\/a> in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The 30-page lawsuit outlines her tensions with board members over how much authority she had to act on certain issues without their approval, and <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/philadelphia-art-museum-sasha-suda-dismissal-legal-investigation-20251110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/philadelphia-art-museum-sasha-suda-dismissal-legal-investigation-20251110.html\">provides details into her dismissal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/philadelphia-art-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Art Museum<\/a> dismissed Suda for cause after commissioning an independent investigation, according to Art Museum leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">According to the suit, Suda was \u201cterminated when her efforts to modernize the museum clashed with a small, corrupt, and unethical faction of the board intent on preserving the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Suda, who was in her third year of a five-year contract, is suing for two years of pay, as well as \u201csignificant damages for the museum\u2019s repeated and malicious violations of the non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses in her employment agreement, and an injunction enforcing the confidentiality and non-disparagement terms of her agreement,\u201d according to her lawyer, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">In a statement, the Art Museum called the suit \u201cwithout merit\u201d and declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full lawsuit here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sasha Suda, the former director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum, sued her former employer Monday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69,89306],"class_list":["post-128941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sasha-suda-lawsuit-pma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}