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One particular plutocratic twist of this grim story of the Gilded Age 2. The Brooklyn Museum is home to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Elizabeth, a descendant of Arthur, routinely insists that she has not directly profited from the sale of OxyContin. Others argue persuasively that all Sacklers are complicit wass the opioid crisis. Sackler even installed a lock to keep them out. As atypical as his early agreement with the Met might have been, Sackler understood something profound about the nature of philanthropy. It is distinct both from charity and from welfare.
You get something for it. Under capitalism, everything can be business. Philanthropy embraces this fact, promising wealthy men like Arthur Sackler the immortality they crave. With time, the universities and museums that once gladly took Sackler money learned exactly how high that price would be.
Nan Goldin taught them. The artist, who says she became addicted to OxyContin after a doctor prescribed it to her for wrist surgery, forced the art world to reckon with the Sackler legacy. With PAIN, her barno, she took the fight directly to the museums and galleries that still took Sackler money and put the Sackler name on the walls. Temple of Oxy! Arthur Sackler may have won his bid for immortality.
The Sackler wing even still bears his name. Spare a brief thought for the Sacklers: No fortune is innocent. There could be a hundred books like Empire of Pain, each scrutinizing the coffers of a different super-wealthy family, and the revelations would be sordid. Labor exploitation and unsavory connections to the business right are stephen crane siblings, and what was a robber baron frequently lay the foundation for great familial wealth.
This country concluded long haron that it would trade the public good for whatever largesse its tycoons would shed. Through philanthropy, the Sacklers took advantage of all that capitalism could offer.]
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