No one stands astride the baublescape with quite the spread of Dale Chihuly, glassman extraordinary, pirate, staple of inferior desecrators partout. And we're writing this within literal inches of the studio of Josiah McElheny. But do the Clintons buy his work and install it in the White House? Is it enormous (sometimes) and enormously tacky (never) and therefore quite the new-money consumable (um, maybe)? We digress. But our neighbor never tried to sue his fellow artists. In an attempt to copyright the sea.

The Times front-pages the story today.

· Glass Artists Face Off in Court [NYT]

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