TOAST Magazine

Arts & Culture

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

Art historian James Fox on preserving craft, returning to childhood creativity, and his new book, Craftland.

7 days ago
The Curious Mind | Art Study

Presenting the winners of our competition, in which we invited your creative responses to our seasonal concept, The Curious Mind.

13 days ago
A Look Back | The Curious Mind at 14 Cavendish

Workshops, performances and the spirit of lifelong learning.

1 month ago
Monthly Happenings | August

Five inspiring August events, from multimedia musings on the sea to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

2 months ago
A Curator’s View | Alayo Akinkugbe

The art historian on challenging the Western canon and her new book, Reframing Blackness.

3 months ago
Monthly Happenings | July

Five inspiring events for your July diary, from folk art to an exhibition on resistance curated by Steve McQueen.  

3 months ago
Brushstrokes of Belonging

Father and daughter artists Arthur and Isabella Timothy on family portraits and documenting the past.

4 months ago
Finding Life in a Lens

Photojournalist Giles Duley on documenting the lives shaped by war, and his new exhibition, The Things They Carried.  

5 months ago
TOAST Presents | A Lightness of Being

A look back at our event at Somerset House, celebrating community, craft and our seasonal concept.

6 months ago
Monthly Happenings | April

Five illuminating events to enjoy this month.

7 months ago
A Balance of Opposites

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

8 months ago
A Curator's View | Jacqueline Sullivan

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

8 months ago
Mapping the Universe

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

11 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.

1 year ago
A Journey Through Pattern & Colour With Isobel Harvey

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

1 year ago
Patterns in Repeat With Artist Helen Booth

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

1 year ago
Erik Winkowski | Thoughtful Threads

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

1 year 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.

1 year ago
Upstate Explorations With Helen Toomer

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

1 year ago
March Avery | Depictions of an Endless Summer

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

1 year ago
A Curator’s View | Rosa Park

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

1 year ago
A New Way with Seaweed

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

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