When the abstract painter Bob Crossley moved from Rochdale to St Ives in 1959 he brought with him a solid reputation gained in the lively Manchester arts scene of the 1950s. He was essentially ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a 1969 photograph by the Moroccan Modernist artist Mohamed Melehi, a market woman in traditional skirts, ...

Art historian Michael Bird visits St Ives to explore the bond between groundbreaking abstract artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, who formed an unlikely and lifelong friendship. Show more Art ...

I FIRST VISITED St. Ives on a dreary day in November 2013. The sky was closed and gray, the sea its bleak, flinty mirror. A former fishing and tin-mining town on the north coast of the Cornish ...

Warren’s sculptures are sensile, tactile and frequently terrific. But they seem strangely unable to fill the Cornish gallery’s uplifting new modernist extension The sea and sky are the first rivals ...

One day in October 1959, the painter Patrick Heron had a shock while walking down the street in St Ives. There, in this little seaside town on the north coast of the furthest tip of Cornwall, was the ...

Abstract painters on both sides of the Atlantic have laboured for 50 years under the suffocating authority of one art critic, Clement Greenberg. Tate St Ives and the University of Warwick are staging ...