Should all works - past, present, and future - by artists caught in the #metoo trap be banished forever? One really wonders if that's what it's coming to, because Harper's columnist Lionel Shriver, in an essay adapted for the New York Post, has noticed a problem:  For reasons that escape me, artists’ misbehavior now contaminates the fruits of their labors, like the sins of the father being visited upon the sons. So it’s not enough to punish transgressors merely by cutting off the source of their livelihoods, turning them into social outcasts, and truncating their professional futures. You have to destroy their pasts. Having discovered the worst about your fallen idols, you’re duty-­bound to demolish the best about them as well. Shriver cites the distributor pullings of works by "great" artists such as Louis C.K., Roseanne Barr, Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, and others of the Hollywood ilk. I recall reading that Lady Gaga...(Read Full Post)