Sackler Name To Remain On Harvard Museums
Harvard University has officially decided not to remove the Sackler name from one of three University art museums and another campus building.
11 August 2024
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Sackler Family: US Supreme Court Lifts Civil Liability Protections
In a landmark decision on Thursday, the US Supreme Court ruled against granting the Sackler family legal protections….
28 June 2024
Sackler Wall Of Shame: V&A Dundee Removes Name From Donors List
The V&A museum in Dundee has removed all signs associated with the disgraced Sackler name.
5 September 2023
Sackler Name Erased From All Oxford University Buildings
The Sackler name has been erased from all buildings associated with Oxford University. This includes the Sackler Library, two Sackler galleries
18 May 2023
Tate Permanently Removes Sackler Name From Buildings – Picasso Guernica Tapestry Returns To UN – Henry Darger Estate Rights Dispute
Tate has backtracked under public pressure and will now remove the existing Sackler names from two of its London museums…. Read More
8 February 2022
Sackler Name Removed From Seven Galleries At The Metropolitan Museum
After half a million known opioid-related deaths, mainly in the US, the Sackler family, owners of Perdue Pharma Corporation, have had their name wiped from seven exhibition spaces at the Met Museum NY
9 December 2021
Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women-Only Artists Sale
Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women- Only Artists Sale
22 April 2021
Disgraced Sackler Family To Have Name Removed From Dozens of Museums
Why do I feel so much vitriol towards the Sackler family? Could it be that after 450,000 opioid-related deaths…
23 March 2021
Nan Goldin and Dr Nicholas Cullinan In Conversation NPG – David Buckley
To coincide with her major exhibition “Sirens” at the Marian Goodman Gallery, Nan Goldin was welcomed by a full-house audience at the National Portrait Gallery.
22 November 2019
Roundhouse Refuses Sackler £1m Donation
The Roundhouse in London is to continue to use the controversial Sackler family signage on the theatre patron’s wall even though they have refused to accept a promised £1m donation.
2 November 2019
Nan Goldin Arrested As Sacklers Offer Insignificant Opioid Settlement
The American photographer Nan Goldin was arrested yesterday and charged with disorderly conduct. She and a group of protesters were… Read More
30 August 2019
Louvre Removes Sackler Name From Galleries After PAIN Protest
Musée du Louvre has removed or taped over all references to the Sackler Family in response to protests from organisations including Nan Goldin’s PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now group.
17 July 2019
Sackler: A Family Divided – Dame Jillian Sackler Speaks Out
Dame Jillian Sackler, third wife of the late Arthur Sackler has defended her branch of the family’s philanthropic donations with a statement to the Washington Post, outlining that her side of the family has never participated in the manufacture of OxyContin or benefited from money generated by Purdue Pharma, which is wholly owned by the other side of the Sackler family.
15 April 2019
National Portrait Gallery Turns Down £1m Sackler OxyContin Donation
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is the first high profile institution to turn down a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust, over the controversy connected to the growing global OxyContin, drug crisis.
19 March 2019
Nan Goldin Takes Over The Guggenheim To Protest Sackler Donations
Nan Goldin the photographer and anti-opioid activist, brought her campaign to the Guggenheim, New York yesterday with a Saturday night protest.
10 February 2019
Nan Goldin: Epidemic Opioid Addiction Demands Sackler Family Accountability
Nan Goldin has woven a practice revolving around human crisis whether it be the 1980s AIDS epidemic or domestic abuse…. Read More
9 January 2018
Washington Explores New Ai Weiwei Fragments Exhibition
A new exhibition in Washington, DC. by the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei which uses Wood fragments from dismantled temples… Read More
14 May 2012