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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">Forwarding link to an excellent article in Newsweek, Blind Spot, sent by Marie at Art Beyond Sight.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">'Accessibility' is not very descriptive," says Nina Levent, executive director of New York's </font><a href="http://www.artbeyondsight.org/index.shtml" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="+1" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;">Art Education for the Blind</font></a><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">. "The issue is, do people come to museums to ride elevators and use bathrooms, or do they come to have a meaningful social and aesthetic experience?"</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">...Still, she says, museums need to change their way of thinking: the DOJ suit is not a legal threat but an educational opportunity. "The museums are very nervous. But them being nervous has not led to excellent programming. It became a legal issue as opposed to an issue of education and outreach," she says.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">"<a href="ttp://www.newsweek.com/id/219112/page/1" target="_blank">ttp://www.newsweek.com/id/219112/page/1</a></font></div>
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