Mr. Lhota detailed his feelings about the art, and his actions toward the museum, in a lengthy deposition, part of a lawsuit the museum filed against the city.
Documentary evidence to support the claim was filed with the museum on Nov. 30, she said.
The Museum of Modern Art will pay $31.2 million for the American Folk Art Museum's building, according to a notice the folk art museum filed to its bondholders.
A Beyonc?ong blared as teenagers filed into the museum for February's party, a reinterpretation of the work of the artist Mark Bradford.
The previous year Mr. Lowry earned $1.95 million in salary, bonus and benefits, Bloomberg said, citing tax returns filed by the museum.
Mr. Schwalb said a challenge to his use of the name "museum," filed by the founders of the yet-unbuilt New York Sports Museum and Hall of Fame, was "absolutely not an issue".
In May, the museum filed suit in Federal District Court in Springfield against Mr. Büchel, asking to be allowed to open the show in its unfinished state.
The Intrepid survived five kamikaze attacks during the Second World War, but it was nearly defeated by far less deadly challenges: in 1985 the museum filed for bankruptcy.
The museum filed a lawsuit against the city, and at a deposition, Mr. Lhota, speaking for the Giuliani administration, was asked what standards he used to deem art appropriate.
Last month the museum filed suit in Federal District Court in Manhattan in an effort to keep the meteorite, saying that it had been part of the landscape of the area from which it was taken.
