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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
