The Art of the Takedown: Sasha Suda's brutal ouster at the Philadelphia Art Museum / Illustration by Britt Spencer
On the morning of Tuesday, October 28th, Sasha Suda, the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum, was called into a meeting at the office of museum board vice chairman Osagie Imasogie, in Center City.
There had been escalating tensions between Suda and the board for going on a year by this point, but that day she wasn't worried. She'd just returned from a triumphant week in Prague and Vienna with two dozen donors. While there, she'd solidified a gift from Comcast co-founder and museum trustee emeritus Julian Brodsky for $20 million to create a children's learning center at the museum, with Comcast's Brian Roberts throwing in an additional $5 million. "I called [board chair] Ellen Caplan and some other board members from Europe," Suda says, "and everybody was thrilled."
Suda had been summoned to Imasogie's office because the board had initiated an outside investigation into museum finances, which they wanted to discuss with her. She wasn't particularly concerned about that. "I'd never hidden anything from them," Suda says. Besides, a few board members told...
Source: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01/09/philadelphia-art-museum-sasha-suda/
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