Crasses et Voluptés

Nan Goldin, Self-portrait with eyes turned inward, Boston, 1989

She first publicly revealed that she was recovering from opioid addiction last autumn, when she gave a talk in Brazil; then, in December, she wrote about it for the US periodical Art Forum, saying of the Sacklers: “To get their ear we will target their philanthropy. They have washed their blood money through the halls of museums and universities around the world.”

In a New Yorker exposé of the family ties last year, Allen Frances, the former chair of psychiatry at Duke University school of medicine, told the magazine: “Their name has been pushed forward as the epitome of good works and of the fruits of the capitalist system. But, when it comes down to it, they’ve earned this fortune at the expense of millions of people who are addicted. It’s shocking how they have gotten away with it.”

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Her campaign is “a call to arms, to fans of Prince, fans of mine, directors of art museums, doctors, anyone who has lost someone to opioids or knows someone who is struggling, which includes most people in America now, musicians and artists, a call for solidarity.”