{"id":98778,"date":"2022-05-08T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/londons-national-gallery-removes-disgraced-sackler-name-from-walls\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T11:57:00","slug":"londons-national-gallery-removes-disgraced-sackler-name-from-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/londons-national-gallery-removes-disgraced-sackler-name-from-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s National Gallery Removes Disgraced Sackler Name From Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London\u2019s prestigious National Gallery, containing much of the UK\u2019s most prized art, has removed the name of one of its biggest donors, Sackler \u2013 the disgraced pharmaceuticals dynasty.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times reports that staff have removed the now infamous name from the room \u2013 technically Room 34, but for 30 years known as \u2018the Sackler gallery\u2019 \u2013 where James Bond (Daniel Craig) sat down with Q (Ben Whishaw) for a covert chat in Skyfall<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The gallery houses the works of some of Britain\u2019s most revered artists, including JMW Turner\u2019s\u00a0The Fighting Temeraire\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0The Hay Wain\u00a0<\/i>by John Constable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, Kew Gardens, Shakespeare\u2019s Globe theatre and the Serpentine Gallery have all made similar moves to drop the Sackler name.<\/span><\/p>\n

This latest decision will now put pressure on London\u2019s Victoria and Albert Museum, another beneficiary of Sackler money and the last museum in the city to bear the name in its Sackler Courtyard, opened in 2017 after the family\u2019s gift to the Museum of \u00a38million ($9.87m). <\/span><\/p>\n

The Sackler family were among the capital\u2019s most generous donors until their money \u2013 a fortune estimated at \u00a313billion ($16bn) \u2013 became tainted by the revelations of their role in the US opioid epidemic, and the way their company\u2019s drug OxyContin was prescribed to millions despite inside knowledge of its addictive properties \u2013 a scandal documented in the Disney+ TV series Dopesick<\/i>,<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Gallery said that the decision to remove the Sackler name from its walls had been \u201cjointly agreed\u201d with the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The gallery said that it was \u201cgrateful for the support it has received from the foundation to undertake its educational and collection-related programmes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London\u2019s prestigious National Gallery, containing much of the UK\u2019s most prized art, has removed the name of one of its biggest donors, Sackler \u2013 the disgraced pharmaceuticals dynasty. The Times reports that staff have removed the now infamous name from the room \u2013 technically Room 34, but for 30 years known as \u2018the Sackler gallery\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":98779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Londons-National-Gallery-Removes-Disgraced-Sackler-Name-From-Walls.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}