Frank Lloyd Wright Dreamers: Visions of Leaky Roofs Dance in Our Heads

Blogger John Firestone of Iridescent Art News wants my Frank Lloyd Wright house!
Neither one of us, alas, is likely realize this dream. But John, think how many sales we may be responsible for, after other Wright lovers read our blogs and find out how many of his houses are on the market!
Meanwhile, faithful CultureGrrl reader Gary Faigin (a painter and art critic for the Seattle NPR affiliate, KUOW) has answered my urgent question about Wright’s Brandes Residence: Where the heck is the Sammamish Plateau?
It is, he says, “a wooded but highly suburbanized highland just east of Seattle, a lead-up to the true foothills of the Cascades just a bit further east. Microsoft country, with the odd displaced bear still wandering around.” Bear?!? Maybe I need to look in Shorewood Hills. No bears in Wisconsin, right?
I don’t usually quote from fan mail, but can’t resist publishing the rest of Gary’s letter, because he so perfectly captures what I’m hoping to do here:
I find your blog one of the most consistently intelligent, pithy and well-informed of any running commentary on the contemporary art scene. Start with the fact that you are nearly the only journalist who seems to care what happened to Dr. Gachet after he left Japan (and you got it right—amazing), an obsession with me since I read that fabulous book [Cynthia Saltzman’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet”] and kept wondering about the next chapter in the Doc’s saga. (Still wondering.)
But add to that your pertinent and useful notes on nearly everything else (the next Philippe, the NY Times follies, the Getty mess, the art/money nexus, etc. etc.), and I’m addicted. Do you know what I most appreciate? You get it out there without “attitude,” an affliction of so many other art writers as well-connected and well-published as yourself. For that alone, I commend you. The goods without the baggage—how can you do better than that?
This blogging thing is such (relatively) new phenomena, I worry about “blogger burnout.” I mean, how long can people keep it up? In other words, keep up the good work, and I’ll enjoy it as long as it lasts.
I experience “blogger burnout” every day. And it’s feedback like Gary’s that keeps me at it.