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What should arts organisations do in response to increasing anger about financial backing from the Sackler family, given their connection to the opioid crisis sweeping the US? Peggy McGlone weighs in.

When the Smithsonian opened the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington in 1987, its namesake was hailed as a philanthropist and connoisseur who had amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of Asian art.
Now the Smithsonian is one of several blue-chip cultural institutions dealing with the blowback from the Sackler family’s other legacy — the American opioid crisis.
The most dramatic of these recent demonstrations... Keep reading on The Washington Post