Form in Art
Producer Peter Clowney visits the 30th anniversary of a workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where blind artists create touchable art.
View ArticleLisa Fittipaldi
Lisa Fittipaldi was an accountant before she went blind in the early 90s. After she lost her sight, she also lost her job and became depressed. Her husband finally bought her a paint set and said,...
View ArticleLisa Fittipaldi
Lisa Fittipaldi was an accountant before she went blind in the early 90s. After she lost her sight, she also lost her job and became depressed. In an act of desperation, her husband bought her a paint...
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Seeing in the Dark
John and Zoltan are both blind, but they deal with the world in completely different ways -- one paints vivid pictures in his mind, while the other refuses to picture anything at all. In this short,...
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Audience to be Blindfolded for Lera Auerbach's Opera, The Blind
Operavores today probably think of themselves as radically apart from what is happening on stage. After all, the colossal fury, anguish, and depravity of such characters as Orpheus, Don Giovanni,...
View ArticleHidden Truths
This hour, stories about uncovering surprising truths hidden in plain sight. Errol Morris launches a sublime and somewhat ludicrous investigation into a famous war photograph, two blind men face off on...
View ArticleOut of Sight
John Hull and Zoltan Torey are both blind, but they deal with the world in completely different ways -- one paints vivid pictures in his mind, while the other refuses to picture anything at all. While...
View ArticleIt's not every day that a 10-year-old blind boy from Quebec sings the blues
A blind 10-year-old boy from Quebec named Félix has become a YouTube sensation for his take on a B.B. King classic. And counselors at his summer camp for blind children say he's helping inspire other...
View ArticleSeeing In Tongues
In 2011, we told the story of Emilie Gossiaux, an art student who was hit by a truck and fell into a coma. Though Emilie was permanently blinded in the accident, she has recently been able to see again...
View ArticlePainting in Tongues
In 2010, after being struck by an 18-wheel truck while riding her bike Emilie Gossiaux, a young painter and sculptor, was blinded. After the accident, Emilie found her way back to the studio using a...
View ArticleMyopia - Mark Mothersbaugh [Slideshow]
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
View ArticleCuring Blindness in the Developing World
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.What's considered a disability in the United States or Western Europe can be completely debilitating in the developing world, where qualified...
View ArticleViruses at the Movies
What radiation was to the 1950s — a real but poorly understood menace that served as an all-purpose plot device — viruses have become for our era. Viruses explain vampires in “Blade” and zombies in “I...
View ArticleUpdate: CRISPR
It's been almost two years since we learned about CRISPR, a ninja-assassin-meets-DNA-editing-tool that has been billed as one of the most powerful, and potentially controversial, technologies ever...
View ArticleWhen Children Are Jailed Parents Pay, Cooking with Scraps, Understanding...
Reporter Eli Hager discusses his new investigation that exposes how parents are required in about half the states in the nation to pay for the costs of their child's incarceration. The co-authors of...
View ArticleAchieving Success While Going Blind
Attorney and tech entrepreneur Isaac Lidsky joins us to discuss his book Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly. As a child actor, Lidsky...
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