As museums across the country are figuring out what to do with huge donations and wings built in the name of the Sackler family, longtime supporters of the arts and owners of the OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma, one of the world’s biggest museums has removed the family’s name from its walls: the Louvre.
article on the family and their art philanthropy. The connection between the Sackler family, the country’s current opioid and painkiller epidemic, and the donations that run America’s greatest art museums have grown bolder and more public in recent years. The artist Nan Goldin started a
against the family, urging museums to stop taking Sackler donations. “The bodies are piling up,” she wrote in a 2018 essay forThe president for the Louvre says that the Sackler’s name was removed because naming rights last 20 years, apparently with the Sackler naming dating back to 1993.
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