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    Josh Spero

    Associate arts editor

    Josh Spero commissions and edits stories across the full range of arts for the FT. Previously he was associate editor of FT Weekend magazine, transport correspondent and deputy editor of Special Reports, as well as opinion editor of Nikkei Asia, based in Tokyo on a one-year secondment.
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    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      InterviewMusic
      Composer Alex Paxton: ‘I want to make the music that makes me feel most alive to write’

      Known for his classical-jazz sonic blasts, he explains how teaching four-year-olds was a catalyst for his creativity

    • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
      Theatre
      Bravo! Boo! Audience participation is no bad thing

      Rowdy theatregoers at the Whitney Houston musical are part of a theatrical tradition as old as Greece

    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      ObituaryPhyllida Barlow
      Phyllida Barlow, artist, 1944-2023

      The sculptor, who hewed giant forms from debris, did not achieve recognition until late in her career

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
      Wagner, Homer and Arrested Development’s Lucille Bluth on how to make great art — a Fantasy Dinner Party

      When you can make up an infinity of things, how do you know where to start? Our writer consults a crack cast of creatives

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Tefaf Maastricht 2023
      Antwerp’s fine arts museum brings a female Old Master back to life

      KMSKA, which has just reopened after its own restoration, is restoring two Michaelina Wautier paintings

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      ReviewPhotography
      A New Power, Oxford — truth and lies since the dawn of photography

      Works on show at Weston Library include a daguerreotype where Queen Victoria scratched out her face

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      Artist Liu Kuo-Sung on his 70-year career marrying east and west

      Born in mainland China but schooled in Taiwan, he has won fans and ruffled feathers across the strait

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      The Benin Bronzes and the road to restitution

      Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Paris+ par Art Basel 2022
      From dandies to cruising, Art Basel talks probe life in Paris today

      Curators Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou have devised a challenging programme at the Paris+ art fair

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Artists who say: welcome to the museum of me

      Tracey Emin and Gilbert & George are among those planning to open galleries featuring their own work

    • Saturday, 8 October, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Duncan Grant’s sensual art brings Bloomsbury Group queerness out of the closet

      The painter’s erotic drawings reveal the secretive society gay men shaped for their survival

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      ObituaryAndrew Edmunds
      Andrew Edmunds, restaurateur, 1943-2022

      The owner of London’s most romantic restaurant was the embodiment of old Soho

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Mpox
      European men struggle to access monkeypox jabs

      Some people are travelling abroad to get vaccinated in wake of severe shortages and increasing case numbers

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      ObituaryLily Safra
      Lily Safra, philanthropist and art collector, 1934-2022

      The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours

    • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
      InterviewArts
      Artist Markus Selg: ‘We’re further in the metaverse than most of us think’

      He has spent his career testing the boundaries between life and virtual reality, in his studio and now on the opera stage

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Japan: Courts and Culture — politics and bling at Buckingham Palace

      Exhibition of items from the Royal Collection highlights the gifts two empires exchanged, from awards to armour

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Kutluğ Ataman — ‘The moment you step out of the system, you are no longer an artist’

      The Turkish film-maker explains why he’s returning to the art world after a 10-year self-imposed exile

    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      InterviewMusic
      Opera singer Joyce DiDonato: ‘My voice doesn’t always feel like it belongs to me’

      The mezzo-soprano on her climate-themed album Eden, singing in prison and why music is like nature

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Music
      Voices Unwrapped festival offers odes to the joy of singing

      The yearlong series at Kings Place embraces early music and contemporary classical, folk singers and gospel choirs

    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Six FT writers on the best party they ever attended

      Nights to remember from a 16th-birthday bash hosted by a hip-hop star to a fancy-dress rave in Mumbai

    • Monday, 3 January, 2022
      Fashion
      Why I wear black

      Monochrome is all about mood, mystery and perfectly cut clothes

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      InterviewSebastião Salgado
      Photographer Sebastião Salgado on why the Amazon is under threat

      His new show at London’s Science Museum reflects the rainforest’s glories — human, animal and landscape — but recognises the dangers they face

    • Friday, 8 October, 2021
      Frieze Week 2021
      Gilbert & George: ‘All the museums now are woke’

      The artist-duo, feeling excluded by major institutions, are opening an east London gallery devoted to their own work

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      Art Basel 2021
      Is the art world ready for radical action to fight climate change?

      With a business model which includes jetting off to global art fairs, the industry is facing a reckoning over its environmental harm

    • Monday, 13 September, 2021
      City of London
      Row over historic synagogue challenges City of London’s post-Covid priorities

      Plans for new skyscrapers raise questions over the future of the Square Mile — and the need to protect its past

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