Arts & Culture

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

The polyphonic creative on connecting audiences to design and making the kinetic mobiles for our shop window displays.

26 days ago
A Curator's View | Jacqueline Sullivan

The gallerist on exploring lightness, memory, and the symbolism of the loving cup.

1 month ago
Monthly Happenings | February

Five events for longer days, from hand-woven histories to an exhibition reimagining fashion’s future.

1 month ago
Monthly Happenings | January

Five inspiring events to start the year afresh, from textile exhibitions to modernist retrospectives.

3 months ago
Mapping the Universe

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

3 months 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.

4 months 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.

5 months ago
Monthly Happenings | October

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

6 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.

7 months ago
Monthly Happenings | September

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

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

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

7 months ago
Patterns in Repeat With Artist Helen Booth

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

8 months ago
Erik Winkowski | Thoughtful Threads

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

8 months ago
Monthly Happenings | August

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

8 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.

8 months ago
Upstate Explorations With Helen Toomer

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

10 months ago
March Avery | Depictions of an Endless Summer

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

11 months ago
A Curator’s View | Rosa Park

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

11 months ago
A New Way With Seaweed

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

11 months ago
Monthly Happenings | May

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

11 months ago
Monthly Happenings | April

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

1 year ago
Monthly Happenings | March

Five thought-provoking spring exhibitions, from a Japanese carpentry exhibition showcasing traditional craftsmanship to a fungi cultivation workshop.

1 year 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. 

1 year ago
The Beauty of Ephemera with Liaqat Rasul

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

1 year ago