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May 10, 2013
May 3, 2013
Peter Aspden:The band they hate to love
What was great about the Eagles is the reason they are resented by succeeding generations
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ARTS
Apr 26, 2013
Peter Aspden: Censors and sensibility
A statue may be shocking but a museum that never shocks is failing in its duty
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BOOKS
Apr 12, 2013
Julian Barnes: A memoir of grief
Nearly five years after the death of his wife Pat, the English novelist has found the words to write about his loss. The FT’s arts writer reviews ‘Levels of Life’
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ARTS
Mar 29, 2013
The stoic, the upbeat and les misérables
A nation’s cultural imprint can act as a prison for its artists
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ARTS
Mar 22, 2013
Safe place for unsafe ideas?
Dubai may become an unlikely locus of artistic freedom in the region
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ARTS
Mar 22, 2013
How to make a splash, quietly
Sharjah sits alongside two bigger players whose cultural aspirations are regularly trumpeted around the world. But the emirate has taken a different route
Mar 15, 2013
Pathos for the masses
A new play at Hammersmith’s Lyric Theatre promises to chill the blood
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SPECIAL REPORTS
Mar 12, 2013
The highs and lows of a cultural capital
A daring mix of traditional and popular art, and public and private funding, puts London at the cutting edge
- Overview Capital plots course to protect its global status
- International affairs Rising with the tide
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BOOKS
Mar 1, 2013
One for the money
A pair of music industry memoirs show management in step with the talent. The FT’s arts writer reviews ‘A Prince Among Stones’ and ‘The Soundtrack of My Life’
Mar 1, 2013
The legacy of the ‘ace caff’
Today, the arts are, almost without exception, beautifully packaged, presented and promoted. But is the art any good?
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ARTS
Feb 22, 2013
An artist finds his groove
Dinos Chapman, purveyor of infernal images that make your flesh crawl, has made his first album
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COMMENT
Feb 22, 2013
Unwise to bring up the royal body
Mantel v Middleton shows what happens when an intellectual comments on a public subject
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ARTS
Feb 22, 2013
Street art acquires value
Art world will never allow an underground movement to remain hidden
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ARTS
Feb 15, 2013
And the best is silence
The experience of art is most intense during private, contemplative moments; there are better spaces for noise
Feb 15, 2013
Councils face hard decision over art
Local authorities want to give their residents a sense of their own history
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ARTS
Feb 8, 2013
The Duchamp revolution
A season of exhibitions celebrates the artist and provocateur’s influence a century after one of his paintings sparked fierce debate. By Peter Aspden
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ARTS
Feb 8, 2013
The artist who came in from the fold
Mat Collishaw makes the uneasy transition from conceptual shock artist to ‘proper’ draughtsman
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COMMENT
Feb 1, 2013
Hilary Mantel: author in tune with the times
The novelist brings a modern sensibility to a pivotal point in history
ABOUT PETER
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 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.
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Peter Aspden: Curiosity didn’t really kill the cat
A new exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary gallery celebrates the wonder of the wandering mind