Though the Sackler name was tarnished over Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, Arthur Sackler’s should not be, she insisted; a company leader, he died well before the trouble began.

Freer and Sackler Galleries Part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery feature a range of art mediums, including particularly ...

Mr. Ford donated his works to the Walters in 2001, and it is the most important art gift given to the museum after its original collection amassed by William and Henry Walters, Mr. Vikan said.

Upon his death in 1919, Freer bestowed 9,500 works of art, including the Peacock Room, to form the Freer Gallery of Art, which opened its doors in 1923 as the first art museum on the National Mall.

In 1905, Charles Lang Freer offered his collection to the nation, but the Board of Regents wasn’t convinced that art was a good fit for an institution focused on history, science and technology.

The Freer Gallery opened in 1923 after industrialist Charles Freer donated 9,500 Asian and American artworks, making it the first national museum of art in the U.S.

If you go Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. asia.si.edu. Dates: Through April 28, 2024. Admission: Free.

The 23-page proposal calls on Harvard to dename the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, part of the Harvard Art Museums, and the Arthur M. Sackler Building, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences building.

Donations from the Sacklers to the Met go back almost 50 years. In 2019, the museum said it would not accept any more gifts from the family behind OxyContin. Now, the Sackler name will be taken ...

At noon today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would remove the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces — including the iconic Temple of Dendur room, with its sweeping and ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together constitute the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Note: Only the Freer will reopen in July.