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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. - -
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
