To ensure that Gauguin’s artistic legacy is not besmirched by his “marriages” to underage girls, these relationships should be covered in exhibitions, said Line Clausen Pedersen, a Danish curator who has put on several Gauguin shows. With each exhibition, “another layer is peeled off the protection of history that he has somehow enjoyed,” she said. “Maybe the time is ripe to take off more layers than before.”

“What’s left to say about Gauguin,” she added, “is for us to bring out all the dirty stuff.”

That's what an exhibit at SFMOMA did for me for Lewis Carroll.

I worked for a pedophile. He had this book called "Young Girls" that he kept in a locked cabinet. His wife didn't know about it. It was very soft focus, very over-exposed, very arty and very full of scantily-clad children in suggestive poses. Dude legit started frotteurizing the back of the couch as he showed me this thing. Photographs were different from Lewis Carroll's only in that they were in color.

“Once an artist creates something, it doesn’t belong to the artist anymore: It belongs to the world,” he said. Otherwise, he cautioned, we would stop reading the anti-Semitic author Louis-Ferdinand Céline, or shun Cervantes and Shakespeare if we found something unsavory about them.

And the world should be allowed to reconsider the context of the art. There's maybe a half-dozen bands I stone cold stopped listening to because having worked with them I found them to be assholes. I think art professionals tend to cling to the objectivity of art while art consumers embrace the subjectivity.