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Artists Protest Sackler Family Through Museums That Bear Their Name
- Activist group has descended on the Met, Harvard, Guggenheim
- Spokesman says Sacklers ‘remain dedicated’ to philanthropy
The family behind Purdue Pharma LP, the OxyContin maker facing billions of dollars in potential liabilities for its role in the U.S. opioid epidemic, has been under siege for months in the art world.
The Sackler brothers Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond, who founded a predecessor to Purdue Pharma in 1952, were benefactors of some of the world’s most prominent museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the U.K.’s National Gallery.