NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday said it would remove the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces, following years of outcry over the family’s ties to OxyContin, one of the drugs at the center of the opioid crisis.
The wing that houses the Temple of Dendur and six other galleries will no longer bear the Sackler family name, the museum said in a .
The museum and descendants of Drs. Mortimer and Raymond Sackler — the two brothers who owned Purdue Pharma when it started producing the painkiller OxyContin — “mutually agreed to take this action in order to allow The Met to further
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