
It's time to chisel the big names off museums' walls
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A recent book and documentary about the Sackler family are both timely reminders of a reality museums and other cultural institutions can't afford to ignore, writes Alexandra Peers: It's time to take "naming rights" off the table.
This cringe-worthy example of wealth's tight ties to the art world is timely. Protesters are increasingly demanding -- successfully -- that US cultural institutions and universities spurn the gifts and remove the names from spaces or buildings of donors deemed complicit in global crises such as the opioid epidemic (tied to the pharmaceutical dynasty the Sackler family), or due to financial ties to criminals (sex offender Jeffrey Epstein).More Related News

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