Dale Chihuly is the most famous glass artist of our time, and admirers see his work as inventive, colorfully dazzling, technically virtuosic and exuberant. And yet the art critics have never warmed to him, regarding his sculptures as brash and empty. Washington Post critics, over the years, have labeled his artwork "utterly vapid" and "pure bombast." This lack of critical affirmation does not seem to matter much to an artist who has been [...]