A trip inside Toronto’s thriving art scene
Dazed & Confused Magazine | Fashion, Art, Music, Film, Ideas | …
April 14, 2026
It may be predictable to open an article about Toronto with a reference to Drake, but as someone admittedly uneducated on the city’s cultural scene, he was the first – and perhaps only – frame of reference I had as I boarded an Air Transat flight to “the 6ix”.
Staying at downtown Toronto’s Drake Hotel quickly dismantled that expectation. A brief search confirmed that the hotel has nothing to do with the rapper, but is instead a long-standing, art-forward boutique stay on Queen Streethellip;
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