COLLEGE SPOTLIGHT CHINESE DREAMS BAKALAR & PAINE GALLERIES MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 621 HUNTINGTON AVENUE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS By Franklin W. Liu “The visionary lies to himself; the liar only to others,” F.W. Nietzsche ominously wrote in “Human All too Human,” in 1878; fifteen years later, Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China. Mao would live for 83 years, leav- ing a bloody genocidal legacy and now prompting a compelling, invidi- ous exhibition, “Chinese Dreams,” — a rhetorical title for certain — cur- rently on view at MassArt’s Bakalar & Paine Galleries. “Chinese Dreams” is a collection of brave, artistic remonstrance of the “Cultural Revolution” — a decade-long, unrelenting hardship from 1966 to 1976 — imposed by Chairman Mao Zedong on ordinary citizens; the end result was millions of people suffering and … [Read more...] about Dream or Nightmare?: Chinese Artists Offer Their Responses