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Once again, Nan Goldin and her PAIN group are protesting the Sacklers at Harvard's art galleries.

Thursday was the second demonstration at the Harvard Art Museums organized by Nan Goldin's PAIN organization, which is opposed to the Sacklers. The Sacklers continue to have ownership of this museum, making it one of the few such institutions in the world.

Protesters organized a "die-in" in the atrium of the Harvard Art Museums with students from the same school that Goldin used to attend, similar to the ones held at the Guggenheim and the Met. They targeted two buildings on campus that share the same donor's name, including the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, one of the three institutions that make up the Harvard Art institutions.

The Sackler family, who owned Purdue Pharma which produced the addictive painkiller OxyContin, has been widely held responsible for the current opioid crisis. The Sackler family used to make significant donations to museums all around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre.

As a result of PAIN's campaign, many of these organizations have removed the Sackler name off their buildings and said they will no longer accept donations from the family's members. In this respect, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum remains exceptional.

After developing an addiction to OxyContin in 2017, Goldin founded PAIN. In 2022, acclaimed filmmaker Laura Poitras chronicled the narrative of her work, life, and action in the documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

PAIN and Harvard students threw flyers and medicine bottles from the roof in the Harvard Art Museums' lobby. One placard said, "SHAME ON SACKLER," which was carried by protesters. The most recent Harvard demonstration by PAIN happened in 2018.

The group claimed on Instagram that it was trying to mirror student demands at Harvard that the university sever "ties to the legacy of white supremacists and slaveowners, whose names are displayed across campus."

As a Harvard alumna, I want the Sackler name removed," Goldin stated in a statement. As the man who conceived of the strategy that Purdue utilized to flood America with Oxy and create the overdose catastrophe, Arthur Sackler cannot be considered innocent on historical grounds. There isn't a Sackler he isn't as guilty as.

Harvard institution's Director of Communications Jason Newton issued a statement in which he claimed, "The university has set up a process for thinking about renaming places, programs, or other things." The Arthur M. Sackler Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Building have both been proposed for renaming.
Pamphlets and prescription bottles fell from the ceiling of the Harvard Art Museums atrium as PAIN and Harvard students protested. Banners read, "SHAME ON SACKLER," which was carried by some protesters. The last Harvard demonstration by PAIN was in 2018.

The organization said on Instagram that it was trying to get the university to remove "ties to the legacy of white supremacists and slaveowners, whose names are displayed across campus."

Goldin issued a statement in which she said, "As a Harvard alumna, I demand that the Sackler name be removed. As the man who conceived up the fraudulent pharmaceutical advertising technique Purdue utilized to flood America with Oxy, starting the overdose catastrophe, Arthur Sackler cannot claim historical innocence. He shares the Sacklers' sense of responsibility.

"The university has established a process for considering de-naming spaces, programs, or other entities," said Jason Newton, director of communications at Harvard University. It has been proposed to change the names of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Building.