Opioid Crisis
Show draws links between China’s opium wars and today’s opioid crisis
Exhibition of artefacts of 19th-century opium trade includes training for visitors on dealing with overdoses
Documentary about Nan Goldin and her opioid crisis activism earns Oscar nomination
Laura Poitras's film, which follows Goldin's campaign against members of the Sackler family, has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category
London's Victoria and Albert museum announces it will 'no longer carry the Sackler name'
Institution cuts ties with the family behind the highly addictive drug Oxycontin
Laura Poitras’s Nan Goldin documentary powerfully balances biography with anti-Sackler activism
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, currently showing in Toronto, the Sacklers become a personification of the oppressive social order that cost many of Goldin’s peers their lives
Documentary on Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sacklers wins the Golden Lion in Venice
Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed presents artist's efforts to bring some family members to justice following her own recovery from opioid addiction
Laura Poitras documentary on Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sacklers to show at New York Film Festival
The film, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”, chronicles Goldin’s life, career and activism around the opioid crisis
Dulwich Picture Gallery latest to drop Sackler name
The London gallery has quietly stopped describing its head, Jennifer Scott, as 'the Sackler Director'
London's National Gallery drops disgraced Sackler family name from its walls—will the V&A follow suit?
Victoria and Albert Museum is last major UK institution to retain the donors' name on its building, despite settlement agreement allowing its removal
Sackler name will be removed from British Museum galleries, rooms and endowments
The removals are the result of a mutual agreement between the museum and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
New $6bn Sackler settlement would let museums remove family’s name from galleries and buildings without consequence
The settlement, if approved, would also place limits on any statements made by museums as they remove the Sackler name
Richard Serra, Kara Walker and other artists urged the Met to remove Sackler name
In an open letter started by Nan Goldin, world-renowned artists denounced the museum’s ties to the Sacklers due to the family’s role in the opioid crisis
Metropolitan Museum drops Sackler name from its galleries
The announcement comes as museums worldwide sever ties with members of the Sackler family over their role in the opioid crisis
Activists including the artist Nan Goldin protest bankruptcy settlement shielding the Sackler family from prosecution
Demonstrators plant cardboard tombstones outside a New York courthouse to call attention to Purdue Pharma’s role in deaths from the opioid painkiller Oxycontin
Sackler family to pay $225m in civil settlement with US government
The deal with the Department of Justice, which also includes guilty pleas and a $8bn fine against Purdue Pharma, does not prevent future claims against family members or company executives
Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal
The family behind Purdue Pharma is poised to buy their way out of liability once again
Nan Goldin and Pain are helping opioid crisis victims file claims against Sackler-owned Purdue Pharma
The artist says the coronavirus health crisis “has made life even more difficult" for drug users and recovering addicts
From the MoMA expansion to ‘artwashing’ ill-gotten wealth: the major museum moments of 2019
We look back at the biggest stories of the year
Citing opioid crisis, Tufts University strips Sackler name from its buildings and programmes
Institution declares that the name “runs counter to the school’s mission”
Freer/Sackler rebrands its identity as the National Museum of Asian Art
Museum officials say the decision is unrelated to protests over the Sackler family's ties to Purdue Pharma
Nan Goldin brings first PAIN protest to the UK, storming the Victoria and Albert Museum
Demonstrators demand that V&A director Tristram Hunt drops Sackler name
Nan Goldin brings Pain to Purdue Pharma bankruptcy hearings in New York
Demonstrators at the White Plains courthouse kept up the pressure to hold Sackler family accountable in opioid crisis, as a $10bn settlement hangs in the balance
How ethical can museums afford to be? We ask five major UK art institutions about funding challenges
We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate
‘Completely unacceptable’: Nan Goldin attacks proposed settlement in opioid crisis
Artist says the reported deal is a cynical attempt to avoid significant restitution
Artist Nan Goldin and other activists arrested during opioid protest at New York governor’s office
Campaigners known for museum protests accuse Andrew Cuomo of not doing enough to halt drug deaths
Musée du Louvre removes all mention of Sackler name from its galleries following protests
Activist group Pain says Paris museum has taped over or taken down plaques dedicated to the eponymous family whose pharmaceutical company is accused of fuelling the US opioid crisis
The Met says it will stop accepting gifts from Sacklers associated with Purdue Pharma
The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family
Guggenheim Museum says it 'does not plan to accept any gifts' from the Sackler family
The move follows similar decisions by London museums
South London Gallery returned funding to Sackler Trust last year
Plus, Nan Goldin's show at the National Portrait Gallery is expected to go ahead after the trust and London museum decided not to proceed with a £1m grant
Tate to stop accepting donations from the Sackler Trust
The move follows a mutual decision by the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust to not proceed with a £1m grant
The Met is re-evaluating its gift acceptance policy in wake of Sackler lawsuits
Their family’s support “began decades before the opioid crisis” says president and CEO Daniel Weiss