Sackler Name Erased From All Oxford University Buildings
The Sackler name has been erased from all buildings associated with Oxford University. This includes the Sackler Library, two Sackler galleries
18 May 2023
The Sackler name has been erased from all buildings associated with Oxford University. This includes the Sackler Library, two Sackler galleries
18 May 2023
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed has received an Oscar Nomination for best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards.
24 January 2023
A new documentary film exploring the career and activism of the American Photographer Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family
12 September 2022
Why do I feel so much vitriol towards the Sackler family? Could it be that after 450,000 opioid-related deaths…
23 March 2021
Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma: Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations
21 October 2020
Nan Goldin is an American photographer who has chronicled her life for art gallery-goers. Her themes include intimacy, moments from an encounter with the HIV crisis, living on the urban edge, the LGBT community, youth and love. She is called the voice of a generation.
12 December 2019
To coincide with her major exhibition “Sirens” at the Marian Goodman Gallery, Nan Goldin was welcomed by a full-house audience at the National Portrait Gallery.
22 November 2019
This major exhibition – the first solo presentation by the artist in London since the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 2002 – will present an important range of historical works together with three new video works exhibited for the first time.
Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm
The Roundhouse in London is to continue to use the controversial Sackler family signage on the theatre patron’s wall even though they have refused to accept a promised £1m donation.
2 November 2019
A filing to the Supreme Court, in the U.S. State of Arizona, has alleged that the Sackler family “siphoned” billions from the family-owned company, Purdue Pharma to deplete it in order to avoid paying claims connected to the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin.”
2 August 2019
Musée du Louvre has removed or taped over all references to the Sackler Family in response to protests from organisations including Nan Goldin’s PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now group.
17 July 2019
Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary portraying the life of the artist and her friends through the 1970s and 1980s
Nan Goldin has said that photography saved her life. Since her late teens, she has used the camera to intimately depict her own life and those closest to her. Her photographs are uncensored and uncompromising. For Goldin, this reflects her desire ‘to leave a record of my life that no one can revise’.
Goldin was born into an intellectual Jewish family in middle-class suburbia outside of Washington D.C. When Goldin was eleven, her older sister Barbara killed herself. It was this loss that motivated her to leave home at fourteen. In the progressive free school she attended, she picked up a camera and started to photograph her friendships, some of which were lifelong. In 1978 she moved to New York where she formed a close bond with a circle of friends and lovers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s she photographed this surrogate family – not from an outsider’s perspective, but as part of the group. These images now stand as a time capsule of a community and culture that would soon be lost due to the AIDS crisis.
She began to stage slideshow performances of her pictures, often with the people she portrayed in the audience. Goldin continually re-edited the selections and sequences. Over time, the project grew in scale and its reputation spread widely.
This display includes Goldin’s slide projection as well as framed prints, posters and a maquette made when she was working on the photobook. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was named after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. Goldin described the work as capturing ‘the struggle in relationships between intimacy and autonomy… and what makes coupling so difficult’. It explores the human condition, including celebration and sadness, love and violence, life and death.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
The activist photographer Nan Goldin, who has staged anti-Sackler protests at leading international museums has welcomed the decision of the family and Trust to withdraw future arts funding.
25 March 2019
Nan Goldin the photographer and anti-opioid activist, brought her campaign to the Guggenheim, New York yesterday with a Saturday night protest.
10 February 2019
The photographer Nan Goldin and a crowd of 100 demonstrators were out en masse protesting at the Egyptian temple located at the Metropolitan Museum in NY.
12 March 2018
Nan Goldin has woven a practice revolving around human crisis whether it be the 1980s AIDS epidemic or domestic abuse…. Read More
9 January 2018
Photography and video works drawn from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. go on display at the Whitechapel Gallery 18 January -16 April.
10 January 2017
As part of its Spring/Summer programme of exhibitions, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) is reinstalling its second-floor contemporary galleries… Read More
27 June 2016