LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE Blind sponsors an annual juried exhibition of artwork by visually impaired people that calls attention to the manifold senses at play in the enjoyment of art, and challenges common presuppositions about the relationship between sight and blindness in the experience of looking at the world (see "Critic's Choice," 9/8/04). Berkeley Art Museum's "Blind at the Museum" addresses similar issues and features work by some of the same artists as Lighthouse's most recent show in the basement of San Francisco's City Hall, including John Dugdale, Pedro Hidalgo, Michael Le Vell, and Kurt Weston. What nevertheless distinguishes the Berkeley Art Museum show is its inclusion of sighted, deaf, and blind artists, who all are concerned with the role of the senses in the enjoyment of art, the complex relationships between them, and their limits. In Lynx, a photograph from Sophie Calle's series "Les Aveugles (The Blind)," Calle juxtaposes text from an interview with a blind woman about what she experiences as beautiful, with an image of the lynx fur she describes in her answer and a photograph of the woman with her glasses slightly off center and one eye rolled up into her head. The piece calls attention to the roles of thinking, reading, touching, and seeing in the enjoyment of beauty, and to the ways they work together for different people. In excerpts mounted on the wall from his book Postcards to Sophie Calle, deaf artist Joseph Grigely respectfully expresses his adverse response to her series and questions the enjoyment – perhaps implicit in all photography – of looking at those who can't look at us. In Hand Over Dog: Joseph at The Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Wingwall presents an off-kilter photograph of the ancient Egyptian ruin, with the nose of her seeing-eye dog in one corner of the image, and her hand reaching out at the bottom of the frame as if in search of her way. The photograph charts a course between the poles of the debate between Calle and Grigely, and provides a potential paradigm for approaching both artwork and other people: Like strangers to a lost culture, we can only draw upon the resources available to us (including the help of others), but should not lose sight of our limitations. Wed. and Fri.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 2626 Bancroft, Berk. $4-$8 (free first Thurs.). (510) 642-0808. (Clark Buckner)