On February 28, 2023, Cambodian dancer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro went to the Famous New York Met Museum and performed a prayer to the looted Cambodian Antiquities. Sophiline Cheam Shapiro immigrated to the States from Cambodia in the 1990s. It was during this time that she first interacted with a Khmer
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In 1508, Pope Julius tasked Michelangelo with repainting the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo, who had made his career as a sculptor, not a painter, protested this assignment but was told in no uncertain terms that he had no choice in the matter. This interaction was seemingly enough to