• if you live in Wisconsin, turn on the tube tonight

    The always-dependable Douglas Anders notes on his Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog that there will be two good FLW-related documentaries on Wisconsin Public Television this week, one tonight and one Wednesday:

    Expo: Magic of the White City
    is on tonight at 8pm. I saw this documentary a few months ago and it’s
    not bad (despite the cheesey historical re-enactments). Some of the
    photographs and other images are jaw-dropping awesome — including some
    of the Japanese section (the Ho-o-den) that so influenced Frank Lloyd
    Wright.

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo will air
    Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm. this hour long documentary follows the
    friendship of Wright and Darwin Martin, and the buildings that they
    built in Buffalo. This is worth watching, but I thought that it was too
    short — an hour isn’t long enough to do justice to the three buildings
    Wright build for Martin (the brevity of the Larkin Building segment
    will make you weep). But it is still a good effort, and great
    introduction to this aspect of Wright’s life.