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