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Artist Nan Goldin Arrested in Protest Outside Governor Cuomo’s Office in NYC

by Hakim Bishara and Jasmine Weber August 28, 2019September 11, 2019

The activists are calling on the governor to establish overdose prevention centers to combat the growing opioid epidemic.

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Pharma Protests Reach Paris, as Sackler PAIN Demands Louvre “Take Down the Sackler Name”

by Hakim Bishara July 1, 2019January 31, 2022

The activists unfurled large banners and staged a die-in in front of the museum’s iconic pyramid demanding it removes the Sackler’s name from one of its wings.

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Artists and Drug Policy Activists Protest FDA’s Role in Opioid Crisis

by Jasmine Weber April 8, 2019September 11, 2019

Nan Goldin was among the artist-activists who gathered in Washington, DC to demand the FDA address the “public health impact of the opioid crisis.”

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Tate Will No Longer Accept Donations from the Sackler Family, Setting New Precedent

by Jasmine Weber March 21, 2019September 11, 2019

The major decision comes just days after London’s National Portrait Gallery decided to not accept a $1.3 million donation from the Sackler Trust.

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Nan Goldin Says She’ll Boycott National Portrait Gallery If It Accepts £1M Sackler Donation

by Jasmine Weber February 19, 2019June 3, 2019

Goldin says she was invited to host a retrospective of her work at the National Portrait Gallery but will refuse to participate if they accept the hefty donation from the Sackler family.

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PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers

by Hakim Bishara February 10, 2019February 19, 2019

The drug policy advocates, led by photographer Nan Goldin, held a covert die-in at the Guggenheim, then marching to the Met to publicly protest on its steps.

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Nan Goldin and Drug Policy Activists Protest NY Governor Cuomo’s Inaction

by Zachary Small November 26, 2018November 26, 2018

Protesters marched outside the governor’s office near Grand Central Station, carrying a mock overdose prevention center to urge approval of the five pilot prevention centers promised during Cuomo’s election campaign.

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Nan Goldin Selling Signed Prints for $100 to Fight the Opioid Crisis

by Zachary Small October 29, 2018

The artist is donating proceeds from the sale, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Aperture Foundation, to her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now).

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Nan Goldin Is Her Own Worst Critic in Surprise TV Cameo with James Franco

by Zachary Small October 9, 2018

Last week’s episode of HBO’s The Deuce included the artist as an unnamed and unimpressed critic of an exhibition, which actually featured her own photos.

Nan Goldin at Saturday's PAIN Sackler protest in the Metropolitan Museum's Sackler Wing (screenshot by the author via YouTube)
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Nan Goldin Releases Statement on the Sacklers’ Patent of “Anti-Opioid” Drug

by Jasmine Weber September 12, 2018

“Maybe they can patent a funeral parlor next.”

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Photography in Search of the Real

by Michael Valinsky August 4, 2018February 25, 2019

Real Worlds invites viewers to consider photography not just as documentation of myriad moments but as a means to more deeply understand lives and interpersonal relationships in Western cities.

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Protesters at Metropolitan Museum Chant “Shame on Sackler,” Targeting Donors Who Profited from Opioid Crisis [UPDATED]

by Benjamin Sutton March 12, 2018July 24, 2018

On Saturday, members of the group PAIN Sackler and other organizations gathered at the Temple of Dendur to decry the Metropolitan Museum’s association with the Sackler family’s painkiller fortune.

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