I love art (the arts) and think that if we only want "morally acceptable artists" we will be in a lot of trouble, especially if these are people from other times and we try to apply a 2023 moral judgement to them.

If we go by moral judgement then we are not looking for works of art, but rather for people that fit into a mold we create, a problematic mold because it changes by the hour and what today is acceptable maybe in a few months won't.