Arts & Culture

Exploring the art world through the eyes of curators, artists, photographers and architects. Visits to studios, galleries, museums and homes.
Mapping the Universe

How artists, in the pursuit of understanding, blur the lines between science and creativity.

9 days ago
Monthly Happenings | December

Enrich the festive season with five joyful events, from a Nordic folk recital to an exhibition honouring the art of repair.

1 month ago
Monthly Happenings | November

Between the bonfires, five events to fill the coming weeks, from a Zimbabwean print exhibition to the national Being Human festival.

2 months ago
Monthly Happenings | October

Five inspiring events to fill the coming weeks, from a Scottish textile exhibition to an educational foraging experience.

3 months ago
Building a Creative Refuge With Happy Medium

Rett and Tayler Carraway, co-founders of the New York-based community art space Happy Medium, on championing self-guided art.

3 months ago
Monthly Happenings | September

Five cultural events to fill the coming weeks, from a Japanese printmaking exhibition to a seasonal dining experience.

3 months ago
A Journey Through Pattern & Colour With Isobel Harvey

Creating vibrant paintings for our seasonal collection, Patterns & Pathways.

3 months ago
Patterns in Repeat With Artist Helen Booth

On creating meditative paintings from a nineteenth-century woollen mill in west Wales.

4 months ago
Erik Winkowski | Thoughtful Threads

Artist Erik Winkowski has created an original video for TOAST composed of a series of abstract animations.

4 months ago
Monthly Happenings | August

Five inspiring events for your August diary, from dynamic art exhibitions to a Northgate folk festival.

5 months ago
A Curator’s View | Gina Buenfeld-Murley

The curator of The Botanical Mind on the patterns presented in nature and the universal symbol of the plant.

5 months ago
Upstate Explorations With Helen Toomer

The arts leader on fostering creative community and cultivating a summer camp mindset through craft.

6 months ago
March Avery | Depictions of an Endless Summer

March Avery’s leisurely summer paintings are explored in a new monograph.

7 months ago
A Curator’s View | Rosa Park

The gallerist on her unconventional arts education and fostering curatorial instinct.

7 months ago
A New Way With Seaweed

Harvesting marine algae at Yellowcraig Beach with textile artist Jasmine Linington.

8 months ago
Monthly Happenings | May

Five inspiring events for your May diary, from a literary festival to nomadic dining.

8 months ago
Monthly Happenings | April

Five events for your April diary, from a literary supper club to affecting art exhibitions.

9 months ago
Monthly Happenings | March

Five thought-provoking spring exhibitions, from intrepid sculpture installations to celebrations of Japanese folk art.

10 months ago
The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Ahead of our Circle Pop-Up at the Barbican, we meet Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith, the curators of its major new exhibition, Unravel. 

10 months ago
The Beauty of Ephemera with Liaqat Rasul

The Welsh Pakistani artist on the politics of his process-driven craft and a milestone retrospective.

10 months ago
Monthly Happenings | February

Five inspiring February events, from sustainable culinary collaborations to explorations of queer ecology.   

11 months ago
Playing in Nature with Artist Rosie Harbottle

Poetic oil pastel artworks inspired by our seasonal theme, Outdoor Pursuits.

1 year ago
Monthly Happenings | January

Five inspiring events to add to your diary, from an independent film festival to expansive art exhibitions. 

1 year ago
Monthly Happenings | December

From candlelit feasts to uplifting art exhibitions, five merry events to make time for this month.

1 year ago