As Tate St Ives reopens with a £20m extension, six of Cornwall’s leading artists describe the spectacular and atmospheric landscapes that inspire them The Island at St Ives is my place to go for contemplation. It’s the big hill overlooking the town, west of the Tate. In my pottery I like to explore new techniques…
In our weekly look at people’s travel through three of their Instagram shots, François De Luca visits one of China’s ancient capitals at the start of the Silk Road Continue reading… Source: Gaurdian
Head to these lesser-known – and often cheaper – ski areas, some with challenging off-pistes and others with family-friendly runs and hotels, but all with breathtaking scenery Villars is only two hours on the train from Geneva airport and it is possible to get a tram up into the village of Gryon, making the journey…
Tell us about a great time you had in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna, from well-known places such as Parma, Modena and Bologna, to out-of-the-way spots The Italian region of Emilia Romagna is particularly blessed when it comes to visitor appeal: slow food and fast cars, busy cities and unspoilt hills, glitzy seaside and sleepy villages. We’d like…
Addition to Cornish art gallery, which is buried out of sight in a cliff, will house contemporary art shows Tate St Ives will reopen this weekend after an 18-month closure and a long, drawn-out £20m expansion project requiring machines to pound the Cornish cliffside to remove blue elvan, the hardest rock in the British Isles.…
Those caught lighting up could face a year’s imprisonment as the government seeks to end pollution and drain damage on Thai beaches caused by discarded cigarette butts Thailand is to ban smoking on some of the country’s most popular tourist beaches, with the prospect of up to a year in prison for those caught lighting…
The Tudor warship that sank in the Solent in 1545 – and was raised 35 years ago today – is beautifully presented within its revamped setting and comes with fantastic artefacts and hands-on activities In 1545 the Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII’s naval fleet, sank in the Solent during a battle with the…
Rome’s Maam gallery exhibits artists from all over the world, who often incorporate the site’s previous use as a slaughterhouse into their work, or are inspired by the lives of its residents Museums are usually hushed places that fall silent when the doors close at the end of the day. But one museum in Rome’s…
Georgia introduced new rules restricting the use of drones last month but before they came into force, Amos Chapple, one of the early pioneers of drone photography, captured the country’s diverse landscapes from above Camera drones have transformed the world of photography by making it cheap and (relatively) safe to take aerial images. But as…
Iceland challenges foreigners to sing along to The A-Ö of Iceland – a song featuring words and phrases from the notoriously difficult language Iceland, the country known to many as home of “that volcano whose name I can’t pronounce”, is pretty good at playing to its quirks. This week the country’s tourist board launched a…
