| Richard Serra, Kara Walker, and Ai Weiwei were among a group of more than seventy that quietly pressured the museum to end its association with the family that made a fortune on the opioid crisis. The full text of their letter and the list of signatories, neither of which has previously been made public, are now published on our Web site.  Photograph by Spencer Platt / Getty By the time I visited the museum on Thursday, shortly after the Met made its announcement, the Sackler name was already almost entirely gone. When I walked up the grand central staircase after entering the museum, I was no longer greeted by the words “The Dr. Mortimer D. and Theresa Sackler Gallery” inscribed in stone above the door leading to the European paintings. The signage announcing the Sackler Wing had also been erased overnight. When I remarked to someone who works at the Met that it must have taken some effort to vanish the name so comprehensively without anyone witnessing the act, he would offer no details, but did note, dryly, that “the museum is closed on Wednesdays.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, from “An Astounding List of Artists Helped Persuade the Met to Remove the Sackler Name” Read the story. | 
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