One Fine Show: ‘Vincent Valdez, Just a Dream…’ at MASS MoCA

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

Full disclosure: I once worked with a museum showing a piece by Vincent Valdez (b. 1977) that was the subject of much hypothetical controversy. This was during a time in which well-meaning people adopted the position that all art should become propaganda to instill moral or at least liberal values in society’s dumbest members.