#MeToo

How do we interpret and display artists such as Gauguin in the #MeToo era?

Dear Clare:  The film that accompanied Gauguin’s Portraits at the National Gallery said the exhibition “expands our definition of portraiture in his work” by highlighting the artist’s relationship with the people he portrayed, including those that have “until now been viewed as generic Tahitians”. As far as I could see, this hinges on a single …

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