{"id":271946,"date":"2025-11-05T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271946\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:29:07","slug":"philadelphia-art-museum-ceo-sasha-suda-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271946\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Art Museum CEO Sasha Suda fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Art Museum\u2019s director and CEO Sasha Suda has been fired.\n<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the museum\u2019s board of trustees terminated Suda after three years on the job. They did not say why.\n<\/p>\n<p>Suda was hired in 2022 from Ontario, Canada, with a formidable set of challenges: recover from the pandemic slowdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-art-museum-director-acknowledges-striking-workers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manage a staff union strike<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-art-museum-name-change-brand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">modernize the brand<\/a> for the next generation of patrons.\n  <\/p>\n<p>A month ago, Suda rolled out a rebranding and name change, from the \u201cPhiladelphia Museum of Art\u201d to the \u201cPhiladelphia Art Museum,\u201d which had reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/1048843\/people-really-hate-the-philadelphia-art-museum-rebrand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruffled some feathers<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b\u201dThere were a lot of really good questions, like anything of this kind. It sparks discussion and debate,\u201d said Suda upon the reveal of the new museum name and brand in October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe board had great questions when we presented the brand to them on numerous occasions. In the end we decided to go for it,\u201d she said. \u201cIf something creates conversation around the institution at this time, then it\u2019s good, whether it\u2019s positive or negative. It\u2019s a conversation about a place that people care deeply about. I\u2019m really committed to keep that going.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the museum\u2019s board of trustees said they are looking for an interim director and CEO. Until one is found, day-to-day operations will be handled by Louis Marchesano, deputy director of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[145391,228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-271946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-museum-philly","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}