“It is the better course for the trust to halt all new giving until we can be confident that it will not be a distraction.”
A protest last spring outside the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington. By Peggy McGlone Peggy McGlone Reporter covering the arts in the Washington region Email Bio Follow March 25 at 5:26 PM Facing rejection from three major art museums, the philanthropic trust of the Sackler family, which built its wealth from the sale of opioids, announced that it would stop making donations.
The development came on the heels of a new federal lawsuit filed by 600 cities, counties and Native American tribes alleging that eight Sackler family members were involved in deceptive marketing practices of the family-owned pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, and its blockbuster painkiller drug, OxyContin.
The Smithsonian, which opened the Sackler Gallery in 1987, said that it is contractually bound to keep the family name on the Asian art museum and that it has no plans to return the original donation. Arthur Sackler donated 1,000 works and $4 million to the Smithsonian years before OxyContin was launched.
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which opened in Washington in 1987. Arthur Sackler’s widow, Jillian Sackler, said last month that it was “a gross injustice” to blame her late husband for the opioid crisis. “Arthur was never involved in Purdue Pharma, a company owned by his brothers Mortimer and Raymond and their families; he had nothing to do with OxyContin,” she said.
“Communities large and small have received immeasurable benefits from this generosity — as one cannot walk into a museum, library, hospital, or university without being reminded that the buildings and the programs they house would fail to exist without philanthropy,” Weiss said in a statement.
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