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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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    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Paris+ par Art Basel 2023
      How the Louvre came to co-own a Colombian power plant

      The museum’s €300mn endowment is ‘here for eternity, almost’, says its director

      A plaster ceiling covered in gilded mouldings around an oval baroque mythological painting
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Frieze Week in London 2023
      Frieze Masters delves into the studios of Maggi Hambling and Mona Hatoum

      Curator Sheena Wagstaff says everything from woodblock prints to a breast pump will be on display in the new Studio section

      A blond woman in a black top poses in front of a green canvas
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      InterviewMusic
      Violinist Johnny Gandelsman: from Bartók to banjo

      Brooklyn Rider, the string quartet he co-founded, have been pushing the boundaries of their art form

      A bearded man plays a violin
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Camp! — a snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic

      Paul Baker has written a stimulating history of a sensibility that is easier to recognise than to define

      Katy Perry wears a glittering chandelier gown at the 2019 Met Gala
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Sexual misconduct allegations
      Liverpool slavery museum cuts ties with architect David Adjaye

      Redevelopment to proceed with existing design but with new architects because of ‘risks in terms of continuing our contract’

      David Adjaye
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      David Adjaye
      David Adjaye gave names of alleged abuse victims to Ghanaian government

      High-profile architect fights to save reputation after FT investigation

      Sir David Adjaye
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      David Adjaye
      David Adjaye steps back from roles over sexual misconduct allegations

      Architect no longer involved in design of Holocaust memorial in London following FT investigation, Riba calls claims ‘serious and concerning’

      The architect David Adjaye
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      FT Investigations
      Sir David Adjaye: the celebrated architect accused of sexual misconduct

      Three women who used to work for the internationally renowned architect have made allegations that range from sexual assault to harassment

      Image of Sir David Adjaye in a blue suit, against a backgound of the three-tiered National Museum of African American History and Culture
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      OutlookLGBT+
      Uganda shows LGBT+ people face growing danger globally

      The legislation is not an outlier but is echoed by anti-gay measures and rhetoric in the US and Turkey

      A man putting clothes into a suitcase
    • 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

      A man wearing a hoodie patterned with bright foam pieces
    • 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

      Phyllida Barlow, in her studio, 2018
    • 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

      A woman wearing goggles and gloves uses a cotton bud to dab a painting of a young man whose canvas is scratched
    • 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

      A black and white photograph from the 19th century shows a woman whose face has been removed from the image, surrounded by five children
    • 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

      A painting in which five yellow orbs hang in the sky above abstract brush strokes that resemble a sea
    • 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

      Two young men looking severe in long coats in a skate park
    • 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

      A woman sits on a step next to metal railings outside a brick building
    • 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

      Drawing of a man licking the nipple of another man
    • 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

      Andrew Edmunds, pictured in Lexington Street. Soho, in 2009
    • 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

      People queueing for the monkeypox vaccine
    • 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

      Lily Safra at her villa in the south of France, La Leopolda, in 1991
    • 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

      Three artists in earth-coloured costumes carry another artist, whose arms are outstretched, above their heads. Other artists, also dressed in earth tones and wearing face shields, look on while sitting on the left side of the 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

      Figures walking on a path through parkland towards the palace
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