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The art elite behind the Met’s divorce from the Sacklers

(ANSA) – NEW YORK, DEC 14 – Richard Serra, Kara Walker, Ai weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan: the Gotha of contemporary art is behind the Metropolitan Museum’s decision to “divorce” the Sackler family, owner of the pharmaceutical company Perdue, and up to her neck in the opioid crisis. Behind the scenes, about seventy VIPs, whose works are in the collections of museums and collections around the world,…