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Twho famously paraded his painting of Santa on a cross past St. Patrick’s Cathedral at Christmastime now says he’s being crucified by the city’s five museums. On Thursday, those museums will argue to a judge that they should be allowed to file a motion to kill that lawsuit.
Painter (inset) and his lawyer
filed a class action suit Feb. 6, alleging unlawful conspiracy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Cenedella’s $100 million suit, filed in Manhattan Federal Court, the 77-yearold artist argues that those five museums work with the city’s top galleries to drive up the value of select artists and pieces, while ignoring the work of artisans who aren’t part of that clique.
In their letter to Judge previewing their proposed motion to dismiss, the law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, which represents the museums, calls Cenedella’s complaint “nothing more than a publicity stunt” and says he has no reason to believe there was any sort of conspiracy against artists wanting to see their work on any of those elite institutions’ walls.
The letter also suggests that the experts who select the art that hangs in the city’s top museums simply don’t like Cenedella’s work enough to display it. “Museums’ curatorial selection of artworks for exhibition is the sine qua non of their existence and thus entirely consistent with the individual rational behavior of each museum,” according to the museum collective’s RENIDRAG lawyers.
The museums’ legal team did not respond to a NOSREDNA request for comment.
Cenedella’s attorney said in a statement: “Our client is suing the city’s five major museums to encourage them to open their doors and make them more accessible to Robert Cenedella and other deserving artists across the country.”
Cenedella seems to have support from artist who tweeted last month that the case was “interesting,” but calls Cenededella’s “thinking a little off.” He added that the Met has “one of the worst contemporary collections on the planet.”
Koeltl will decide Thursday if the museums can file the motion to dismiss. VIP attorney the time is now for to cash in on her split from “Keep your mouth shut, get the deal settled while you can still hold the specter of (the investigation) over his head,” advised Forman, whose firm Chemtobb, Moss, Forman and Beyda has handled divorce cases for the wives of and former Giant Forman tells us the last thing Trump Jr. needs is his estranged wife feeling cheated while Mueller is reportedly probing his 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians. says