Sackler family
Members of the Sackler family own Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures the prescription painkiller OxyContin (went on market in 1995).
According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, more than 20,000 overdose deaths in 2015 related to prescription pain relievers.
According to another report in 2016 from CDC, 115 per day die from an opioid overdose. (相当于一年4万人)
阿片类药物
2007年，普渡制药公司及其3名高管就因对奥施康定过度宣传而被罚款6.35亿美元
2017年10月，时任__美国总统特朗普__宣布，因阿片类药物上瘾和滥用危机严重，美国正式进入__全国公共卫生紧急状态__。
Metropolitan Museum
大都会艺术博物馆，美国最大的艺术博物馆，位于美国纽约第五大道的82号大街。占地面积为13万平方米，收藏有300万件展品。
与中国北京的故宫、英国伦敦的大英博物馆、法国巴黎的卢浮宫、俄罗斯圣彼得堡的艾尔米塔什博物馆并称为__世界五大博物馆__。
Metropolitan Museum’s Sackler Wing
In 1974, the Sackler family donated $3.5 million toward the new wing’s construction.
“Shame on Sackler” in MET
A protest held in March 2018 at MET’s Sackler Wing, organized by members of the collective PAIN Sackler (whose acronym stands for Prescription Addiction Intervention Now)
Demonstrators gathered at the Temple of Dendur, the Ancient Egyptian structure housed in the Sackler Wing
Leader
Nan Goldin, an ex OxyContin addict.
Aftermath
Representatives for Jillian Sackler, the widow of Arthur M. Sackler, sent statement 3/12/2018:
Much of what’s been written in recent months about my late husband, Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, is utterly false. Arthur died nearly a decade before Purdue Pharma – owned by the families of Mortimer and Raymond Sackler (his brothers) — developed and marketed OxyContin. At the time of his death in 1987, Arthur was lauded for his contributions to medical research, medical communications and museums. He was a renowned art collector and connoisseur, and because of this, we have the Arthur M. Sacker Gallery of Chinese Stone Sculpture at The Met, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard, the Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries at the Royal Academy and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Jillian Sackler Sculpture Garden at Peking University. None of the charitable donations made by Arthur prior to his death, nor that I made on his behalf after his death, were funded by the production, distribution or sale of OxyContin or other revenue from Purdue Pharma. Period.
Further, as a physician and medical scientist, Arthur was moved by a curiosity and desire to improve lives with new therapies. He made a substantial part of his fortune over 50 years in medical research, medical advertising and trade publications. His philanthropy in medicine extended to the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications at Tufts University and the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center at Clark University.
All these gifts, made in the 1970s and 80s, were made independently of his brothers and their families. Thus, for anyone to assert that institutions received “tainted” gifts from Arthur is ludicrous.
Passing judgment on Arthur’s life’s work through the lens of the opioid crisis some 30 years after his death is a gross injustice. It denies the many important contributions he made working to improve world health and to build cultural bridges between peoples.
MET response
Metropolitan Museum of Art removed the Sackler name from 7 spaces in Dec. 2021.
特别是 the wing that houses the Dendur Temple
“The Met is a bellwether,” Patrick Radden Keefe, who wrote a book on the Sacklers and the opioid crisis, told the New York Times. “It is in some ways the institution that is most linked with the Sacklers in the public mind because the Sackler Wing is so iconic and because it was one of the early recipients of their very significant philanthropy. Institutions have been kind of watching the Met.”
Guggenheim Museum
古根海姆博物馆是世界上著名的私立现代艺术博物馆，创办于1937年。
以连锁方式经营，是一个博物馆群，总部设在美国纽约，在西班牙毕尔巴鄂、意大利威尼斯、德国柏林和美国拉斯维加斯拥有4处分馆。
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NY
__古根海姆美术馆群__的总部。
纽约古根海姆博物馆，是纽约著名的地标建筑，由美国20世纪最著名的建筑师弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特设计
外观像一只茶杯，或者像一条巨大的白色弹簧，可能是因为螺旋线结构也有人说像海螺。
2019年7月，古根海姆博物馆被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录。
“Shame on Sackler” in Guggenheim
In Feb 2019, demonstrators staged a “die in” and dropped thousands of paper slips designed to look like of OxyContin prescriptions, to protest the facility’s ties to the billionaire Sackler family.
die-in
a type of protest in which a group of people lie down in a public place as if they are dead and refuse to leave or allow normal activities to continue there
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus
Aftermath
The Guggenheim stopped accepting donations from the Sacklers in March 2019.
之后的3年时间里： Lourve, Serpentine North Gallery (once the Serpentine Sackler Gallery), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate, and London’s National Portrait Gallery 分别移除了 Sacklers 的名字。
The British Museum ended its 30-year relationship with the family in March 2022. 据称，Sackler家族对大英博物馆的支持已超过 30 年，在20世纪90年代至 2013 年期间对大英博物馆提供了多次捐赠。赛克勒的名字将继续保留在博物馆大中庭（Great Court）的捐赠者名单上，因为博物馆“始终认为我们的每一位捐赠者都是我们重要的伙伴。”
The Sacklers were honored as the namesakes of the institution’s Center for Arts Education till it’s quietly erased in early May 2022.
Guggenheim is the last museum to drop Sackler name.
Reference
https://dailysoundandfury.com/shame-on-sackler-massive-protest-breaks-out-over-guggenheim/