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Guggenheim's Audio Guide Brings The Art Museum To Listeners' 'Mind's Eye'

Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City on April 16, 2016. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images hide caption

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The Coronavirus Crisis

Guggenheim's Audio Guide Brings The Art Museum To Listeners' 'Mind's Eye'

October 30, 2020 • The "Mind's Eye" audio experience is an aural escape during the pandemic, but it's actually designed for the blind community. The idea is to immerse listeners in a space that can be vividly imagined.

Guggenheim's Audio Guide Brings The Art Museum To Listeners' 'Mind's Eye'

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UNESCO Adds 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings To Its List Of World Heritage Sites

The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright who developed the concept of "organic architecture," that a building should develop out of its surroundings. Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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UNESCO Adds 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings To Its List Of World Heritage Sites

July 7, 2019 • The Guggenheim Museum in New York and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania now belong to a list that includes Machu Picchu and the pyramids of Egypt.

House Of Chicken: Chef Wins Competition With 'Fallingwater' Platter

Richard Rosendale's winning platter, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, is on display at the 2012 Bocuse d'Or USA competition at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. Keith Ferris/Culinary Institute of America hide caption

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The Salt

House Of Chicken: Chef Wins Competition With 'Fallingwater' Platter

February 1, 2012 • Richard Rosendale is the latest American to have a shot at Bocuse D'or eminence. He earned a place in the international competition with a dazzling chicken platter that resembled Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house.