DALE CHIHULY, the celebrated glass artist whose sprawling sculpture, “Mendota Wall,” helped open the Kohl Center in 1997, is having some tough times.
The good news, according to a lengthy front page story in Monday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is that Chihuly, 64, is working through his problems, which include lawsuits, feuds and depression.
The bad news is the story in the Seattle paper included this paragraph: “Chihuly didn’t start the studio glass movement. Harvey Littleton did in the 1960s in Madison, Wis. But Littleton’s work never went anywhere, and Chihuly’s made the studio glass movement catch fire.”