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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.
Email Josh Spero @joshspero  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast25 min listen
    Culture Chat: The Greek myths are sacred. Did ‘Kaos’ desecrate them?

    ‘Kaos’, Netflix’s new Greek mythology series starring Jeff Goldblum, landed on screens last week. The FT’s Josh Spero and Claire Bushey join to discuss

  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Five stars for Berliner Philharmoniker’s Bruckner under Kirill Petrenko

    Over two nights in London, the orchestra delivered lively Schumann, theatrical Smetana and Bruckner’s gripping Fifth

    A man in a black shirt with a light greying beard holds up both arms as he conducts
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    ObituaryVisual Arts
    Pål Enger, Norwegian art thief, 1967-2024

    The footballer turned criminal was jailed for stealing Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ and was then himself inspired by it to paint

    Pal Enger
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Artist Rebecca Salter: ‘I’m quite happy with disruption’

    The first female president of the Royal Academy has to balance work with painting while redefining the institution’s future

    A middle-aged woman with short grey hair, dark glasses and a white shirt is portrayed painting in a naturally lit studio filled with wooden frames, textiles and paint rollers.
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Mona of the Manor — has Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City reached a full stop?

    The 10th book in the beloved San Francisco series is a reunion of old friends — but not always in the best sense

    A woman with long hair, seen from behind, looks out of a window on to a green landscape
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    ReviewMusic
    Chappell Roan, Heaven — romantic disappointments and erotic possibilities drive urgent pop

    Her Missouri-meets-Manhattan attitude has already won a cult audience

    A young woman with bright red lipstick and long red-purple frizzy hair wearing a grey silky dress sings joyfully into a mic with one arm raised aloft
  • 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
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