[harperlee]

> Encountering facts like that just makes me wonder what other kinds of defects or oversights could be hiding in their works.

To me this sounds as if you now need to search for issues on a piece was already deemed good; in a way this is a fallacy. Wagner was a great artist, is his music antisemitic? Doesn’t sound logical. You could perhaps argue that there might be some latent risk in his music expanding values that can create a basis for antisemitism; to me all that sounds just like justification.

In the extreme: is a math theorem less true when done by awful people? There must be some truth and some value on their works.