Move follows similar recent decisions about Sackler philanthropy, including by the Guggenheim museum and the Tate in Britain
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that it will stop accepting gifts from members of the Sackler family who own the company making the OxyContin prescription painkillers implicated in the US opioids crisis.
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