Tainted money and tainted donors
Michael Moody and Michael Pratt, 2020
Just about every major arts institution – from the Guggenheim to the Louvre – has received sizable funding from the Sackler family. Until recently, this arts patronage was how most people knew the Sackler name – if they knew it at all.
But the Sacklers, and their company Purdue Pharma, makers of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, are now becoming much better known for a different reason – their aggressive marketing of the drug despite its known dangers, and their complicity in fueling the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic. Museums with a Sackler-named wing, and other nonprofits supported by the Sackler family, now find themselves facing tough ...
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