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Peter Aspden

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    ReviewVisual Arts
    What happens when art and science collide?

    More than 70 galleries and 800 artists offer new insights on an age-old question in the city’s dizzying array of exhibitions

    An animation of multiple beams of purple light spreading across a city against a backdrop of city skyscrapers at night
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Democracy in Athens — this exhibition is a stress test for our times

    A thought-provoking show brings together art from three countries — Greece, Spain and Portugal — created under oppressive regimes

    A painting of a cartoonish dictator in military uniform standing to salute but dwarfed by his throne behind
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Visual Arts
    As Cindy Sherman heads to Athens, ancient Greek women go to New York

    A forward-thiking agreement between the Cycladic museum and the Met suggests a way forward in repatriation debates

    Two images, on the left is a woman wrapped in a red towel with short blonde hair. The other is a photo of a broken stone figurine with two arms across the head and no head
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    What happened when Greek tycoon Dimitris Daskalopoulos gave away his art collection?

    More than 350 works have gone to Tate, Guggenheim and Athens’ EMST but his name won’t be appearing at any of them

    Two maroon-coloured foam forms surround two pillars
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Travel
    Postcard from Modena: in search of Enzo Ferrari

    A new movie is set to draw visitors to the legendary sportscar maker’s home city

    Classic red racing cars in a large white exhibition hall
  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    The other Freddie Mercury: inside the singer’s London home

    For three decades Mary Austin has been the custodian of the Queen frontman’s art-filled house. Now she is finally ready to sell its contents

    A crown and red cloak in a chest
  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Music
    Onassis Foundation’s quest to spread the words of CP Cavafy

    The foundation is celebrating the poet’s work with events in Greece and beyond, including one in New York featuring Laurie Anderson

    A woman plays violin with her eyes closed; behind her sit a number of women
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Travel
    My holiday with James Bond

    The secret agent has been travelling the world for 60 years — now fans can follow in his footsteps

    Peter Aspden with an Aston Martin DB5
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    ReviewUpstream
    Agent Elvis, Daisy Jones, Swarm and TV’s twisted takes on pop culture

    New shows run the gamut from 1960s drug-fuelled mayhem to Billie Eilish as pseudo-therapist

    A cartoon Elvis stands in profile shooting a gun, flanked by an angry-looking ape and a woman in black
  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Paul Smith has designs on Picasso

    The fashion designer talks about being given the freedom of Paris’s Musée Picasso to put his unique stamp on its collection

    A grey-haired man wearing smart clothes and spectacles stands against a wall decorated in broad light green stripes
  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Upstream
    From Fawlty Towers to Frasier — the difficult world of the reboot

    As John Cleese revives his 1970s classic, will it offend modern sensitivities — or will it just fail to be funny?

    John Cleese as Basil Fawlty looks intent as he wields a broom
  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Upstream
    That shrinking feeling: TV’s uneasy relationship with therapy

    From ‘The Sopranos’ to ‘Frasier’ to ‘Shrinking’, shows have made comedy and serious drama out of the talking cure

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    HTSIThe top 12 HTSI stories of 2023
    The secrets of the Mercedes-Benz Holy Halls

    The maker opens the doors to the world’s most extraordinary car collection 

    Inside the Mercedes Heilige Hallen with (on front row, from left) a Mercedes 300 SL roadster, a 300 SE and a special armoured 350 SEL
  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    Television
    When the BBC put cameras into viewers’ hands

    The 1970s ‘Open Door’ project gave members of the public free rein. Now the results can be seen in a London exhibition

    A screen-grab of a TV title card for the 1979 documentary ‘It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum’
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Upstream
    Why 18th-century Versailles outstrips 1970s LA for sexual frankness

    ‘Marie Antoinette’ says more about gender and power than the violent tale of the crazily successful Chippendales club

    A woman in ornate 18th-century dress stands with a man who has his arm around her shoulders
  • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
    Arts
    1973 — the year pop culture found its dark side

    From Pink Floyd to ‘The Exorcist’, the impact of bleak albums and films is still being felt 50 years on

    A photomontage: a young Stevie Wonder, a scene from ‘The Exorcist’, David Bowie looking glam, a large burning wicker man and more
  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    ReviewTelevision
    If These Walls Could Sing review — charming history of Abbey Road Studios

    Amid a starry cast of contributors, The Beatles loom large in Mary McCartney’s memoir of a pop shrine

    A man stands in a large recording studio while orchestral musicians sit around him
  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    Upstream
    Space: the final frontier of TV misanthropy

    Armando Iannucci’s sci-fi satire ‘Avenue 5’ takes human narcissism beyond the earthly realms of ‘Succession’ and ‘The White Lotus’

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Recycling Beauty, Prada Foundation — what the Romans did for us and what we did to them

    Classical art has been repurposed and reworked across millennia, this surprising, profound exhibition shows

    A huge statue of a seated man in a gallery. The man holds a staff in one hand and a golden orb in the other
  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Television
    What happens when TV intellectuals are given free rein

    ‘Simon Schama’s History of Now’ continues a tradition that is fast fading amid highly polished but predictable programming

    A man looks up thoughtfully at the high-rise buildings surrounding him
  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    InterviewTheatre
    When American ideologies collide: James Graham on his play Best of Enemies

    As his Gore Vidal vs William F Buckley Jr drama hits the West End, the playwright reflects on ‘making sense of the world’ through art

    A photograph of playwright James Graham, 40, seated at a desk and facing the camera
  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    William Kentridge: ‘The history of the 20th century shows us the danger of all claims to certainty’

    The South African artist on the fallout from apartheid, being his own director, and why certainty is anathema to art

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    Visual Arts
    Jean-Michel Basquiat and jazz made the perfect combination

    A new exhibition in Montreal looks at how the artist was inspired by many genres of music, including hip-hop

    Blue painting with musicians
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Paris+ par Art Basel 2022
    Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis: on a quest to deconstruct ancient monuments

    His new installation, now on show in Paris, playfully explores his country’s classical heritage

    A bearded man sits in an armchair, the arms of which resemble the scrolled tops of classical Greek columns
  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Visual Arts
    Sensation: 25 years on from the show that shook British art

    A new BBC series recalls the swagger and hubris of the Royal Academy’s infamous YBA exhibition

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