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With art and maps by Shanawdithit
The pencil drawings are intricate: slender dark lines marching carefully across the pages, glimpses into a people long believed extinguished. Shanawdithit, a Beothuk woman in her 20s, drew them nearly two centuries ago in the months before she died. Only a dozen of her drawings are known to exist today.
Five are maps of the lake in central Newfoundland, today known as Red Indian Lake, where Shanawdithit’s people made camp. But they are not mainly cartographic. Instead, they are accounts of what Shanawdithit saw: where heavily armed British settlers captured Shanawdithit’s aunt, Demasduit, in March 1819; where Demasduit’s husband, Nonosabasut, the last known Beothuk chief, was shot and killed, along with his brother, trying to convince the English to give her back; and, drawn in the red that symbolized both her people’s ochre decorations and their blood, the routes that the Beothuk took as they fled the muskets and bayonets that day.
THE public will reconnect in high numbers when our historic sites re-open in earnest at the end of this month. From April 30, 27 historic sites will be re-opening, including Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle. Historic Environment Scotland (Hes) will be adapting its visitor experience in light of Covid restrictions but it promises to be just as stimulating as before. Hes said: “We are pleased to be re-opening sites once more, in line with Scottish Government guidelines, with many ticketed sites re-opening once again on April 30, as well as opening up further sites across the country on a phased basis over the coming months.
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Visits to world’s top 100 museums and galleries fall 77 percent due to COVID-19
Institutions across globe could take years to recover from the disastrous 2020, survey suggests
By Mark Brown / The Guardian
Visitor numbers at the world’s top 100 museums and art galleries plunged by 77 percent last year, down from 230 million in 2019 to just 54 million as the COVID-19 pandemic forced closure on an unprecedented scale.
The survey carried out annually by the Art Newspaper for more than 20 years is normally an upbeat one, highlighting which museums had good years and what the most popular exhibitions were, whether in London, New York or Sao Paulo.