TOAST Magazine

Arts & Culture

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

Winter time is great when you run a beer & wine shop. Me and my missus have

8 years ago
The Hogarth Press | An Anniversary

On 25 January 1915, Virginia Woolf celebrated her birthday. She was given two

8 years ago
In Between | Film

Maysaloun Hamoud's sharp and subversive debut feature explores the lives of

8 years ago
Fireworks

China, 7th century. A discovery: tubes of bamboo, filled with saltpeter

8 years ago
Ruth Asawa | Life & Works

In 1946, Ruth Asawaaged 20 and intent on pursuing training in fine

8 years ago
MoMA | The Curator's Eye

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of Architecture and Design and Director of

8 years ago
Food Art

My thesis was called, From the High Table to the High Chair: The Cultural

8 years ago
Cunningham, Cage and Me

In 1953, the year I was born, the choreographer Merce Cunningham formed his

8 years ago
Black Mountain College

What you do with what you know is the important thing. To know is not

8 years ago
The Beguiled | Film

A young girl with plaits down her back sings and skips through the woods. She's

8 years ago
Paradigm Shift | The Geodesic Dome

Eva Diaz is Associate Professor in History of Art and Design at the Pratt

8 years ago
New Inventions

Each year the Royal College of Art hosts a graduate exhibition to showcase the

8 years ago
A Brief History of Block Printing

The soft thud of a wooden block hitting the print table is the

9 years ago
Lady Macbeth | Film

As this spare and striking drama opens, the camera slowly pans around the

9 years ago
Outdoor Theatres

It was the ancient Greeks who started the tradition of outdoor theatre, with

9 years ago
Workspace | Rebecca Louise Law

We spoke to Rebecca Louise Law, an artist known for her vast, immersive floral

9 years ago
James Seaton talks to Lucy Williams

Lucy Williams is an artist - a successful artist in mid-career, represented

9 years ago
Hay Festival | 30 Years

Thirty years ago, the Hay Festival was born around a kitchen table. Norman,

9 years ago
On Film | Toni Erdmann

In the first scene of this exquisite film, Wilfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek)

9 years ago
Works of The Heart | The Windows

We asked three of our favourite bloggers to visit their local TOAST to seethe

9 years ago
Zoe Whitley | The Curator's Eye

Zoe Whitley is a research curator at Tate Modern. She moved to London in

9 years ago
Works of the Heart | The Runners Up

Since the beginning of December we have beenlooking for a variety of

9 years ago
Workspace | Flora Jamieson

For this month's workspace wevisitedFlora Jamieson at her studio in Dorset,

9 years ago
Workspace | Lori & Eric Wright

For this month's workspace we spoke to the makers of our handmade copper

9 years ago