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Sackler family members also fretted over how to manage artist Nan Goldin s activism. December 22, 2020 The Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of the Met. A trove of private messages between members of the Sackler family, who own the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, reveals the ways they attempted to leverage their years of philanthropy to solicit positive PR from museums during the scandal over their role in the opioid crisis. Exchanged between October 2017 through June 2019 on WhatsApp, the messages were recently made public as part of Purdue’s ongoing bankruptcy litigation (and first reported by The.Ink), which follows the company’s guilty plea and $8.3 billion settlement agreement last month. Numerous high-profile institutions are referenced in the various chats, including the Dia Art Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Natural History Museum. ....