guston did not discuss his work.t's been left to interpreters like lasser. >> what he paints are images of klansmen who had haunted guston since he was a young artist. images of himself in a hood, as a klansman, painting. images that call to account the underlying, i think, structures of racism in the art world and in america in general. >> how do you create a way for those images to be understood? jared: matthew teitelbaum is the mfa's director. he, along with the heads of the three other presenting museums, were caught in a firestorm of controversy in 2020, when the show was set to open at the national gallery in washington, d.c. >> we're marching for black life. jared: in the wake of george floyd's murder and ensuing protests, the museums -- which also included mfa houston and london's tate modern-- chose to postpone the show four years, when, they announced, the work, including its kkk imagery, could be, quote, "more clearly interpreted." >> we felt it was a very charged moment to talk about race and to not have

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