25Mar/19

Museums Cut Ties With Sacklers as Outrage Over Opioid Crisis Grows – The New York Times

Museums Cut Ties With Sacklers as Outrage Over Opioid Crisis Grows  The New York Times

In London this weekend, visitors to the Old Royal Naval College headed to its reopened “painted hall,” an ornate masterpiece called Britain’s answer to the Sistine Chapel, and then went to the Sackler Gallery to learn its story. In Paris, at the Louvre, lovers of Persian art knew there was only one place to go: the Sackler Wing of Oriental Antiquities. Want to find the long line for the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Head for the soaring, glass-walled Sackler Wing. For decades, the Sackler family has generously supported museums worldwide, not to mention numerous medica…