Museums now know that our current cultural dynamics require the reassessment of many artists in the canon. Viewed in the contexts of sexism and racism, and imperial and environmental predation, art we never questioned before must run the gauntlet, knives out. And rightly so. An exhibition on the history of hats, for example, has to address the destruction of birds, killed on the nest for their mating plumage. When it comes to painting, perhaps no artist has raised more hackles than Paul Gauguin, who treated the girls of Polynesia as his own personal harem. Gauguin exhibitions are increasingly framed within his faults. This exhibition at MASP presents 40 paintings and engravings, along with a catalogue of unpublished essays and images that address the way Gauguin’s art promotes both the idea of the “other” and a self-image that was self-serving. The show is organized by MASP artistic director Adriano Pedrosa and MASP curators Fernando Oliva and Laura Cosendey. —Laura Jacobs