All the Beauty and the Bloodshed centers the artist’s campaign to stop the “artwashing” of the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis.
Nan Goldin
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An Achingly Personal Portrait of Nan Goldin
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed forcefully posits multiple parallels between the world Nan Goldin grew up in and the one she fights in today.
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Nan Goldin’s Triumphs and Tragedies
We joined devotees of the photographer and activist at a screening of the new documentary All the Beauty and Bloodshed, followed by a talk with Goldin.
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London’s V&A Museum Finally Drops the Sackler Name
But a museum in Harvard is still named after a member of the disgraced family, notorious for its role in the opioid crisis.
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Nan Goldin Documentary Wins Top Prize at Venice
Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed follows Goldin’s fight against the Sacklers’ attempts to artwash their reputations as chief architects of the opioid epidemic in the United States.
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The Quietly Gripping Art of Peter Hujar
Four captivating examples of the artist’s photographs, taken between 1973 and 1984, will be auctioned in August as part of Swann’s fourth annual LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture, and History sale.
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Museums Will be Able to Remove Sackler Name Without Penalty
If the deal is approved, the Sacklers would pay up to $6 billion and lose their cherished naming rights at institutions.
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A Protest Against Purdue Settlement Transforms Courthouse Landscape Into a Graveyard
Activists from advocacy groups PAIN Sackler and Truth Pharm denounced Judge Robert D. Drain’s “bankruptcy scam.”
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The Thrill and Intimacy of Nan Goldin’s Gaze
Vast in size and scope, Memory Lost recalls a mid-career retrospective more than a single gallery show.
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Museums Were Key to Sackler PR Strategy, Family Group Chats Reveal
Private text messages published this weekend by The.Ink show how members of the Sackler family tried to use the museums that received their money as a way to clear their names.
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Nan Goldin Testifies at Landmark Hearing On Purdue Pharma’s Role In Opioid Crisis
Last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing was the first time members of the Sackler family publicly addressed their alleged role in the epidemic.
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New Documents in Purdue Case May Pressure Institutions to Rename Sackler-funded Spaces
“Interoffice documents paint a dark picture of profit for the family at the expense of human life,” the artist-activist group P.A.I.N. told Hyperallergic.