Is it unfair to describe the majority of Dale Chihuly’s glass-based work as tasteless? It certainly feels like inviting trouble. Taste, after all, is a social concept more than an aesthetic one, and is beside the point when judging serious art. People might disagree, say, about the aesthetic merits of Nabokov’s “Lolita,’’ but you wouldn’t pursue a conversation with someone ...
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PM on April 7, 2011