Aaron Tracy

Rowling?

Do we give her books to our kids?

And it's different because she's alive and very much doubling down, right?

She's saying what she's saying.

And it's a very interesting and complex dynamic there.

With Dahl, you have someone who's dead.

where there's not this ongoing connection to the horrible things he said.

This question is interesting because it's almost like when I think about this problem, I think about individual responses and institutional responses.

Will I watch a Polanski film?

Yes.

Would I program or curate a series of Polanski films at my local art museum?

More complex.

If my local art museum were to do that on its own, would I hope that they would acknowledge some of the complexities of the biography?

Also, yes.

In your role as a parent, in a sense, you're an institution.

There's pedagogy involved.

There's the person can't escape the roof that they're under.

So you have different pressures on you as an institution than you do as a single person who's making his own decisions about whether or not to consume the art.

So I guess you just have to ask yourself, what kind of institution do you want to be?

And what is it that you're saying to your kids?