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Peter Aspden

Peter Aspden is the Financial Times’ arts writer, having previously been its arts editor for five years. He joined the paper in 1994, as deputy books and arts editor and a general feature writer on Weekend FT. He has written on numerous subjects, including travel, religion, politics, history, most art forms and sport: he covered the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, and the World Cup in France in 1998.

He was born in London in 1958, but spent much of his childhood in Greece, where his mother was born. He was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before going into journalism. He joined the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1985, where he went on to become deputy editor.

He has been writing a weekly column on contemporary culture since January 2004; it appears in the Life & Arts section every Saturday. - -

Solidarity with the fishermen

The images and slogans produced during the 1968 Paris street rebellions are a testament to the students’ imagination, says Peter Aspden

The spoils of war and a sense of hope

Britain must rid itself of its curious addiction to glorifying its own past and devote the Fourth Plinth to more ephemeral forms of expression, says Peter Aspden

Artists boost ICA’s anniversary

High-profile figures from the world of art are donating works for an auction to raise money to mark the 60th birthday of London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts

Video game with guts, gore and social insight

Grand Theft Auto will not teach your children how to tell right from wrong; but neither does Pop Idol or Wagner’s Ring cycle, writes Peter Aspden

A contemporary marriage

Miuccia Prada symbolises perfectly the dizzying merger of fashion and art. The designer tells Peter Aspden about her plan to house a 500-piece collection at the Prada Foundation’s new headquarters

Kitchen-sink diplomacy

Design and aesthetics were essential elements in the battle between the postwar superpowers, writes Peter Aspden

‘Half of what I say is meaningless...’

For culture to move forward, to steal is more than acceptable. It is imperative, writes Peter Aspden

The Histories man

Michael Boyd talks to Peter Aspden about his crusade to bring Shakespeare to British schools

The times of my life

On his birthday Peter Aspden resolves to give himself the ultimate cultural present by giving up on Wagner

The body from inside out

Wayne McGregor, Royal Ballet’s first resident choreographer after 16 years, finds it natural to unite artistic and scientific systems of thought in his works. Peter Aspden investigates

The naked truth about freedom

Luton takes arts path to boost self-esteem

Design for a superpower

London confirmed as global cultural leader

Wider still and wider, shall thy bounds be set

‘I saw a side of life I had never seen’

To beard or not to beard

Flashy, clever, funny: how art has taken off

Airport screening: Art takes off

Adventures into alien territory