[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] Flag and Paris

[Lisa Yayla]

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/503981.html
Rooted in Kansas, Braille flag to be nationally displayed
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"And those words stuck with his son, Randolph Cabral. He set out to 
design a Braille flag, a tactile flag that allows the blind to sense the 
colors, as well as the 13 stripes and 50 stars. And Cabral will be 
thinking of his father when a bronze replica is formally dedicated this 
spring at Arlington National Cemetery as a tribute to the nation’s blind 
veterans and other blind Americans."



http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/How_about_touching_the_art/articleshow/2808646.cms

"How about touching the art!
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PARIS: Signs ask visitors to keep their hands off the art in the Louvre 
Museum. But one special sculpture gallery invites art lovers to indulge.

The Louvre’s Tactile Gallery, targeted to the blind and visually 
impaired, is the only space in the museum where visitors can touch the 
sculptures, with no guards or alarms to stop them. Its latest exhibit is 
a crowd-pleaser: a menagerie of sculpted lions, snakes, horses and eagles."