[Dog Gone]

[Thinkin' Gal]

A relative of Clintoon?

[Orual]

Is the photo a before or after picture?

[kitkat]

Darn! I hoped it was the Chihuly dish that Hillary took from the White House.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've seen an exhibition of Dale Chihuly's stuff. Some of it was kind of strange (I'm no art buff.) but it was all pretty amazing. Shame one of our "betters" has no more respect for property than most politicians.

[RightWhale]

What is important, the product of the artist, or the act of creation itself, or the perception of the art in the mind pof the witness? Maybe all, in different ways, but this points out the superiority in some aspects of the performance arts. Theater, dance, and music are performance arts and exist only while being performed before an audience, --or audient in the case of the teen with earbuds.

When the performance is done, only the perception remains. Thus, this glass flower has completed its performance, and the audience has gone home.

[Wm Bach]

Wow! What great glasswork. It's not often that
something something so labelled as "art" turns out
to be actual art these days.

[general_re]

"That piece certainly has some large, fleshy, bulbous regions, now doesn't it? Isn't that special?"

[Atlantian]

Didn't the Clintons steal a Chiluly from the White House?

[vikingchick]

But police said that given its location -- in the middle of an ankle-deep pond surrounded by a waterfall -- whoever broke it had to go to some trouble to get to it.

Maybe a jealous rival threw a rock or a finger bowl at it.

[TADSLOS]

"Ooh, what a pretty flower for Marge..."

[newzjunkey]

For those who don't know, as I remember from 6-8 years ago Chihuly can only see out of one eye and doesn't actually blow this glass himself anymore. He supervises the glass blowing of apprentices in his studio. He might do drawings of designs; I can't recall.

[dennisw]

The artist: