The Met cuts Sackler name amid opioid ire

NEW YORK » The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.

The New York museum and the Sackler family jointly announced on Thursday that the institution and their once-deep-pocketed benefactors would part ways, removing the Sackler name from the iconic building, including the wing that houses the Temple of Dendur. Descendants of Mortimer and Raymond Sackler currently are principal owners of Purdue Pharma, the company that developed Oxycontin, a widely prescribed and widely abused painkiller.