• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Log In
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Log In
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Log In
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

PAIN Sackler

Posted inFilm

Nan Goldin’s Triumphs and Tragedies

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 12, 2022October 13, 2022

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.

Posted inNews

London’s V&A Museum Finally Drops the Sackler Name

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia and Jasmine Liu October 3, 2022October 4, 2022

But a museum in Harvard is still named after a member of the disgraced family, notorious for its role in the opioid crisis.

Posted inFilm

Nan Goldin Documentary Wins Top Prize at Venice

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu September 12, 2022September 13, 2022

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.

Posted inNews

Museums Will be Able to Remove Sackler Name Without Penalty

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

If the deal is approved, the Sacklers would pay up to $6 billion and lose their cherished naming rights at institutions.

Posted inNews

A Protest Against Purdue Settlement Transforms Courthouse Landscape Into a Graveyard

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia August 9, 2021March 4, 2022

Activists from advocacy groups PAIN Sackler and Truth Pharm denounced Judge Robert D. Drain’s “bankruptcy scam.”

Posted inBooks

Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 15, 2021June 16, 2021

Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.

Posted inNews

PAIN Activists Say They Were Followed by Sackler-hired Investigators

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

The alleged surveillance of members of PAIN, the advocacy group founded by Nan Goldin, is detailed in Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book.

Posted inNews

23 States Call for Protections for Nonprofits That Choose to Drop Sackler Name

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called for protections that would allow museums to get out of perpetuity contracts without facing lawsuits.

Posted inNews

Nan Goldin Testifies at Landmark Hearing On Purdue Pharma’s Role In Opioid Crisis

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 21, 2020December 18, 2020

Last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing was the first time members of the Sackler family publicly addressed their alleged role in the epidemic.

Posted inNews

NYU to Remove Sackler Name Following Pressure From Students and Artist-led Group, P.A.I.N.

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 22, 2020November 5, 2020

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.

Posted inNews

P.A.I.N Sackler Calls Proposed Purdue Pharma Settlement “Justice for Sale”

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 7, 2020November 5, 2020

Founded by artist Nan Goldin, the activist group P.A.I.N. criticized the potential settlement, which would protect the family’s personal wealth.

Posted inNews

Tufts University Removes Sackler Name From Med School; Smithsonian Rebrands Its Sackler Gallery

by Hakim Bishara December 5, 2019December 6, 2019

The billionaire Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma who are well known for their philanthropy, has come under intense scrutiny in the art world.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Older posts
Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Log In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy