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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. - -

French film, global culture

Olivier Assayas talks to Peter Aspden about his new movie where three fortysomething siblings come home to a countryside villa to deal with death and 19th-century masterpieces

British Museum is top draw

More than 6m people visited the museum over the past year, with the attendance figures largely based on the terracotta army exhibition, writes Peter Aspden

Running round Tate Britain

There may be more beautiful art shows in town, but Martin Creed’s latest work for the gallery is undoubtedly the fastest, writes Peter Aspden

Heroes without glory

For Peter Aspden the choice of Antony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’ for commission in Trafalgar’s fourth plinth reflects the vacuous, narcissistic society Britain has become

Thatcher’s children meet the flower power generation

Peter Aspden asks if Thatcherism has left a heavy imprint on Britain’s cultural scene

Oxford commission for Turner prize artist

Magdalen College is to enter the contemporary cultural fray by commissioning one of Britain’s most controversial artists to make a sculpture for its 550th anniversary celebrations

Slow death of the axeman

Peter Aspden misses the great guitar solos even if they became ridiculous in the end – mannered and heavy-handed

Strawberries and cream forever

In the big-money, fast-changing world of modern tennis, Wimbledon is still selling its vision of a gentler, old-fashioned game that belongs to a nobler age – and doing very nicely too, writes Peter Aspden

When sport mimics art

An exhibition celebrating the centenary of Italian football club Inter Milan tells through pictures and text the emotions that surround the global game, writes Peter Aspden

A dialogue with modernity

Both Athens and Rome are embracing the future with eclectic programmes of cultural events, writes Peter Aspden

Lunch with the FT: David Simon

The rebel’s in the retail

Hendrix, Callas and the bank

Tennis

Women dominate Turner shortlist

Solidarity with the fishermen

The spoils of war and a sense of hope

Artists boost ICA’s anniversary

Video game with guts, gore and social insight

A contemporary marriage