Stamford, Connecticut art gallery owner Fernando Luis Alvarez was arrested Friday morning after he allegedly helped place a nearly 11-foot-long, 800-pound drug spoon sculpture outside the corporate headquarters of drugmaker Purdue Pharma and refusing orders to remove the artwork.
According to a report from the New York Daily News, the giant steel sculpture was created by artist Domenic Esposito as part of an exhibit hosted at Alvarez’s Stamford gallery and served as a protest against the handling of the ongoing opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma is being sued by multiple state and local governments for allegedly selling the opioid painkiller OxyContin with “deceptive marketing,” thereby helping further the opioid problem in the U.S.
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