If anything, artists these days count themselves lucky to have their work provoke anything as strong as a belly laugh. The political sensibility is arch and predictable. Sexism is bad. Censorship is bad. Corporations do not have your interests in mind.
Art collectors are rich, mean, corrupt people who commodify art and use it for their own ends.
The posting will spell out the museum's suspicions and will supply as time goes on further data hoping for feedback that will either squash or buttress the concerns. This is the first harvest of what the American Association of Museum Directors pledged to do two years ago, namely, to inventory all holdings to determine what if any Nazi-tainted works might exist. The MFA is the fourth institution to expedite its research into questionable art. The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Museum in New York are working towards something like what the MFA intends to do. We want this to be a responsible discussion.