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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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  • 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
  • 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

    A man in a red top with a long grey beard stands outside a wooden house
  • 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

    A blonde woman with bright red lipstick in a flowy flowery black dress
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