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The most powerful Oscar nominee you didn’t see

"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" shows how Nan Goldin challenged the Sackler family with artistic protests

Published March 14, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

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On a busy Saturday night in February 2019, hundreds of patrons of the arts ducked out of the cold and into New York City’s bustling Guggenheim Museum. Some were there to view the vast assortment of works on display; others may have been simply seeking refuge from Manhattan’s frigid temperatures. But no one expected a live demonstration, and certainly not from one of the esteemed artists featured within the museum’s pristinely pruned collection.

Hiding in plain sight that night, among the patrons scattered throughout the museum, was photographer and activist Nan Goldin, along with several members of her advocacy group, P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now). Goldin and P.A.I.N. had been quietly organizing a demonstration in protest of the Guggenheim’s acceptance of funding from the multi-pronged Sackler family — the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma, which created and marketed OxyContin and sat at the root of America’s opioid crisis. When a name that rings of so much death is enshrined in something as beautiful as art and history, it glorifies the name by association, stripping it of all the harm it’s caused.

The group planned to strike when it was most effective, maximizing the amount of eyeballs and attention that their protest could receive. They smuggled in banners,........

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