Filip Noterdaeme is a Belgian-born American artist, satirist and writer best known for his creation of The Homeless Museum of Art, a conceptual artwork that encompassed installation, writing and performance.

[4] He additionally would satirise the institution by dressing in a Ratcatcher (attire) hunting outfit, and bringing in his Dachshund to the school, instructing it in front of faculty members to "go find a masterpiece!".

[5] He was dismissed from Hunter following allegations of plagiarism when he exhibited a nude painting, signed as Marcel Wasbending-Ttum, that used the imagery of Gustave Courbet’s L'Origine du monde and René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images, which was viewed as scandalous.

[12] Noterdaeme’s second manifestation of the project, in 2004, was a public protest action[13] that raised awareness about the fact that the Museum of Modern Art, following its multi-million-Dollar expansion, had hiked its admission fee by 63%.

It included a tour of Noterdaeme's apartment in Brooklyn that he and his partner Daniel Isengart had turned into a live-in pastiche of a contemporary art museum, including a guided audio tour, shop, café and a “Staff And Security Department,” where Noterdaeme, wearing a fake beard, and introducing himself as HOMU's Director, held court in the style of Louis XIV's lever, using a Taxidermy Coyote to represent his press secretary.

[20] Noterdaeme detailed his creative process of writing the adaptation in an essay published on the Queen Mob's Teahouse blog.