But state attorneys general predict an imminent bankruptcy filing as settlement talks break down

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

Artist says the reported deal is a cynical attempt to avoid significant restitution

Proposed settlement calls for family's company Purdue Pharma to file for bankruptcy and become a public trust distributing profits

Activist group Pain says Paris museum has taped over or taken down plaques dedicated to the eponymous family whose pharmaceutical company is accused of fuelling the US opioid crisis

Museum’s director Tristram Hunt says securing loans and sponsorship is “more of a challenge” as tension grows between Trump and Tehran

Pain protestors demand that museum officials rename 12 rooms named after the Sackler family

The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family

German artist urges art world to rally against cultural funding from embattled family at opening of her show at Serpentine Sackler Gallery

The move follows similar decisions by London museums

The move is a “face-saving” measure says US photographer and activist Nan Goldin

Plus, Nan Goldin's show at the National Portrait Gallery is expected to go ahead after the trust and London museum decided not to proceed with a £1m grant

The move follows a mutual decision by the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust to not proceed with a £1m grant

Mutual decision comes amid controversy over trust's connection to Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a prescription painkiller linked to the opioid crisis

In the first part of a new series, Adrian Ellis looks at the increased public scrutiny of museum boards in the social media age

Pain held demonstrations at the Guggenheim and the Met over the weekend

Their family’s support “began decades before the opioid crisis” says president and CEO Daniel Weiss

Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Museums are facing greater scrutiny over sponsorship and the artists they choose to display

The people, places and things that had a year to remember—or to forget

Mortimer Sackler opened a handful of accounts in Switzerland one month before federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma in 2005

The artist has compiled an exhaustive analysis of the political affiliations of trustees

Eight members of the family are being sued for helping to fuel the opioid epidemic through their pharmaceutical company

The photographer calls on Elizabeth Sackler to support proposed law amid family members’ denials of responsibility for health crisis

Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor and chairman, looks back

In their first direct action, the artist and her activist group PAIN tossed prescription pill bottles labelled OxyContin into the moat surrounding the Temple of Dendur and staged a die-in

"Maybe the Sacklers don’t care, but we should give them the chance to discuss solutions, and if they rebuff, then f*** them"—Jeremy Deller

The activist group founded by the artist Nan Goldin, who revealed her struggles with opioid addiction, says it intends to pressure museums to refuse the philanthropic family’s money

Anna Somers Cocks on the revelations published in the New Yorker magazine

Beneficiaries of the family’s largesse deflect or ignore questions about the donors’ role in the drugs epidemic sweeping the US