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Sylvain Amic, the president of the Ćtablissement public des musĆ©es dāOrsay et de lāOrangerie (the governmental body that oversees both institutions) since April 2024, puts it plainly: āA museumās mission is to radiateāto make known and to share its collections with the greatest number of peopleāso there is a contradiction in the idea of needing to limit how many can come.ā
With examples including rebellious colonistsā proud adoption of āYankee Doodleā as their anthemāthe song was initially sung by British troops, to make fun of supposedly unsophisticated localsāand the emergence of blackface minstrelsy, Zelnik shows how white settlers used playfulness and humor to position themselves as the rightful owners of the land, to the exclusion not only of foppish Brits but also of Indigenous and Black Americans.
Standing to speak at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery, in Oklahoma, her youngest son spoke movingly about what sheād been like as a parent, recalling moments from his childhood, including a time when she dived to rescue him from the bottom of a lake.
Borys Petrunok, a researcher with Zmina, a human rights organisation in Kyiv that has identified culture workers as one of the groups of Ukrainian citizens most vulnerable to arbitrary detention by Russian forces, says it is incredibly difficult to compile a comprehensive list of the missing.