Nan Goldin, a fine-art photographer hitherto best known for her interest in sexual politics, has found herself a new cause. It is now her mission to force art museums not merely to stop accepting charitable donations from members of the Sackler family, but to give back donations that they’ve already accepted. Having previously staged anti-Sackler protests at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, she has just informed London’s National Portrait Gallery that she won’t permit that museum to mount a planned...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 26, 2019 19:52 UTC