Nan Goldin, Faith Ringgold, and other artists make TIME Magazine’s annual list of the 100 'Most Influential' people of the year:
as someone who “has put real investment into creating spaces that reflect the country’s rich diversity, and rethinking how we can embrace our cultural narratives, whether through physical monuments or the ways in which we tell our stories.”
In addition to helming the country’s largest funder of arts and education, in recent years Alexander hasThe Light of the World , a Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir documenting the aftermath of Ghebreyesus’s death and honoring their life together.Finally, in the “Pioneers” section, photographer and activist Nan Goldin is recognized for her successful campaign to urge museums to cut ties with the Sackler family, who owned Purdue Pharma, the makers of the opioid OxyContin, to which Goldin was addicted to for many years.
“With her impeccable eye and the zeal of a survivor, Goldin framed each protest like a photograph,” he wrote. At long last, “it worked. she placed a burning spotlight on the family, who recently reached settlements requiring them to pay $6 billion to help remediate the crisis. She pioneered a powerful new form of activism and started an urgent conversation about tainted money in the arts.”