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The pretty corner of Cornwall that the world has its eyes on today
With the G7 summit dominating St Ives, here are seven mini breaks spread over a week that showcase the charms of the Cornish seaside town
7 June 2021 • 5:00am
St Ives has been catering to daytrippers from all over the world ever since the railway arrived in 1877
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St Ives has come a long way since the Irish princess Iya floated into the bay on a leaf in the 5th century to bring Christianity to its fisherfolk. This June it is the leaders of the free world who will be landing on its beaches for the G7 Summit – possibly with vaccine passports in hand.
From Barbara Hepworth to Laura Knight, Rose Hilton to Elizabeth Forbes - Cornwall's female artists find themselves in the spotlight and on gallery walls
Some achieve distinction in one or possibly two branches of the world of art, but few, if any, are outstanding in all of them. Alan Bowness – art historian, curator and museum director, critic and journalist, and a collector himself – was just such a man, for all his personal modesty and quiet public profile. What drove him was his love for, and thirst for knowledge of, 19th- and 20th-century art – painting and sculpture especially. This allowed him to become one of the most effective proselytisers for contemporary art, which in Alan’s heyday was very much a minority, and some would say elitist interest. (As an educator, he no doubt thought that every individual, with self-willed effort, might join in the pleasures that all the arts bring.)
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