New York's Met museum to remove Sackler family name from its galleries
Yay.
And:
Thank you , Nan Goldin, a photographer/activist who has been pressing for the Met and other museums who accepted Sackler money to drop their name and stop taking their money.
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Art museum announces change in the wake of leading members of the family being blamed for fueling the deadly US opioids crisis
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New York’s famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is going to remove the name of arguably its most controversial donor groups – the billionaire Sackler family – from its galleries.
The news comes in the wake of leading members of the US family, one of America’s richest, being blamed for fueling the deadly opioids crisis in America with the aggressive selling of the family company’s prescription narcotic painkiller, OxyContin.
The Met, which overlooks Central Park and houses some of the most famous and precious art works and antiquities in existence, announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with the descendants of two of the Sackler brothers behind OxyContin that seven named exhibition spaces at the institution would no longer carry the Sackler name.
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The American art photographer Nan Goldin devised and led a direct action protest at the Met in 2018 against Sackler philanthropy. She later took protests to institutions including the Guggenheim in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris, which had all benefited from Sackler money and displayed the family name, demanding that arts and academic institutions stop taking their dollars and also take down the name.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/09/new-york-met-art-museum-to-remove-sackler-family-name-from-galleries
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