Article 4BQ2T 'This is blood money': Tate shuns Sacklers – and others urged to follow

'This is blood money': Tate shuns Sacklers – and others urged to follow

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Joanna Walters in New York
from World news | The Guardian on (#4BQ2T)

Pressure builds on other institutions to disavow Sackler family over OxyContin, powerful painkiller linked to opioid deaths

Earlier this year at the Guggenheim in New York, activists objecting to donations from the Sackler family draped protest banners from the museum's famous spiraling balconies, dropped flyers down through the atrium and pretended to die all over the floor. A gobsmacked public looked on.

Tate Modern has just escaped a similar fate.

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