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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed shows Nan Goldin's fight to hold the Sacklers accountable for role in opioid crisis

"Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together," photographer Nan Goldin writes in the introduction to the 1996 edition of her seminal monograph The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, originally published in 1986. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the unflinching, Oscar-nominated documentary helmed by Laura Poitras, is also about a "struggle between autonomy and dependency" – one waged by Goldin …

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: How photographer Nan Goldin took on the Sackler family – and won

‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ chronicles the fight to purge one family’s name from the art world

Editor’s Note: Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. In that way, Poitras’ now Oscar-nominated documentary, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” began in the hands of its subject — and much like one of Goldin’s own artworks, it …

Review: The art, rage and action of Nan Goldin in ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’

Nan Goldin in a photo from the 1970s in the documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.” Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars. Photographer Nan Goldin knows this as much as anyone, her life’s journey from suburban captivity to outsider freedom, from Polaroid chronicler of her …

‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ taps the intersection of art, addiction, activism

So many moving parts mesh so seamlessly in “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’ galvanizing portrait of photographer Nan Goldin, that it feels like several movies blended into one. Adopting her collaborative subject’s unflinching yet also righteously energized spirit, the film pivots at the intersection of art, addiction and activism, reflecting on Goldin’s pioneering work and its often …