The British school will rename staff positions and some buildings but retain donations made by the family.
PAIN Sackler
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In Surprise “Die-In,” Protesters Demand Harvard Take Down Sackler Name
About 100 students and PAIN activists participated in the action the day after a screening of Nan Goldin’s documentary on campus.
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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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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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Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”
Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.
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PAIN Activists Say They Were Followed by Sackler-hired Investigators
The alleged surveillance of members of PAIN, the advocacy group founded by Nan Goldin, is detailed in Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book.
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23 States Call for Protections for Nonprofits That Choose to Drop Sackler Name
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called for protections that would allow museums to get out of perpetuity contracts without facing lawsuits.
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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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NYU to Remove Sackler Name Following Pressure From Students and Artist-led Group, P.A.I.N.
The decision comes the day after a settlement between Purdue Pharma and the Justice Department, in which members of the Sackler family will pay $225 million in civil penalties, less than 2% of their estimated net worth.
