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Ej hill mass moca8/12/2023 3Īfter the group cautiously assembles around the shimmering reflecting pool at the foot of the temple, they begin to abruptly disrupt the gallery’s quotidian decorum: Chants echo, banners unfurl, and dozens of prescription bottles emblazoned with the Sackler name launch into the air. 2 Much of the Sacklers’ drug money has been philanthropically funneled into the coffers of various cultural institutions, including The Met-hence the fierce presence of Goldin and her companions on this brisk day in March 2018. As unearthed in a 2017 New Yorker article (the revelatory contents of which partially inspired Goldin to found PAIN the same year), 1 the origins of the opioid epidemic can be directly traced to the sinister marketing campaign put forth by the family’s company, Purdue Pharma, which falsely claimed that the drug was safe the Sacklers subsequently raked in billions of dollars from sales of the highly-addictive opiate. This gallery was one of seven in the museum that, at the time of this demonstration (2018), bore the name of the Sackler family, notorious heirs to the unscrupulous empire of Ox圜ontin. Flush with anticipatory energy, the group gathers outside the museum before converging in the cavernous gallery that houses the epochal Temple of Dendur, an appropriately momentous setting for their unauthorized action. Nan Goldin, along with fellow activists from the advocacy group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), prepare for a protest-their first-at the Sackler Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Åsa Lundén.Īt the beginning of Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), a disruption unfolds. Image courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet. Exhibition Architecture designed in collaboration with Hala Wardé. Nan Goldin, This Will Not End Well(installation view) (2022). Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library (New York, NY) USC Fisher Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. The Baltimore Museum of Art Library & Archives (Baltimore, MD) Sotheby’s Institute of Art (New York, NY) School of the Art Institute of Chicago, John M. Point Loma Nazarene University (San Diego, CA) NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Scholes Library (Alfred, NY) Northwest Nazarene University (Nampa, ID) Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Emerging Leaders of Arts (Santa Barbara, CA) Midway Contemporary Art (Minneapolis, MN) Maryland Institute College of Art, The Decker Library (Baltimore, MD) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Research Library (Los Angeles, CA) Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (Los Angeles, CA) Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, CA) Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Library (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)Ĭenter for the Arts, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)Ĭharlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO)Ĭranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
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