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ReviewVisual Arts
Yinka Shonibare’s show Suspended States: ‘Art should operate on different sensory levels’
...The new abstract sculpture grew from “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle” (2010), Shonibare’s memorable installation for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth....
April 12, 2024
InterviewLunch with the FT
Deborah Levy: ‘Art isn’t there to explain away complexities’
...Stalking her every move, through the streets of Athens, London and Paris, is her unnamed alter ego....
April 28, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Geopolitics
FT writers’ predictions for the world in 2024
...After 30 years in power, the African National Congress will miss out on an absolute majority for the first time since Nelson Mandela became president in 1994....
December 30, 2023
The Big Read
Can democracy survive 2024?
...It would be heartening to imagine that historians will see 2024 as a milestone in democracy’s long journey from the rowdy town square debates of classical Athens, through the thinking of 18th-century philosophers...
January 3, 2024
FT SeriesArt Basel OVR:2020 and the dawn of new platforms
Collector Harry David — dreaming of Africa
...Harry David’s sleek, modern house in a leafy suburb of Athens is full of art....
September 16, 2020
Residential
Five of the world’s best private islands for sale
...From there it is a 20-minute drive to Nelson and 10 minutes more to the city’s domestic airport....
August 3, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Europe Express
Brexit goes to space
...In the first Fraser Nelson argues that Britain is doing just fine from Brexit; in the second Susan McKay argues that it may be Northern Ireland that pays the price....
March 26, 2018
FT Magazine
Battle lines: the fight for a fair vote in America
...A courtly southerner born in Athens, Georgia, with a replica of Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory in his office, he argued his first election rights case in 1964....
August 2, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Youssou N’Dour et le Super Étoile de Dakar: Fatteliku — review
...Youssou N’Dour et le Super Étoile de Dakar Fatteliku (Real World) You could argue that 1987 was Youssou N’Dour’s peak as a performer; certainly this concert, an Athens warm-up for Peter Gabriel, finds...
October 9, 2015
Life & Arts
Simon Kuper: Why do we still watch the Olympics?
...It took testers so long to expose him that only in 2013 did the original runner-up, the American Adam Nelson, receive his gold medal in an Atlanta airport food court....
July 29, 2016
EU economy
Athens seen as less of a threat to eurozone
...The announcement of a snap presidential election in Greece prompted the biggest one-day fall in the Athens stock exchange since 1987, with Greek government bonds also suffering heavy losses....
December 10, 2014
FT AlphavilleChris Nuttall
FT Opening Quote – George the builder
...The group was menaced a few years back by activist investor Nelson Peltz. It was subjected to feebler pressure more recently by Marcato, a little-known hedge fund, to sell itself....
July 10, 2015
Life & Arts
Where are the world’s riskiest property buys?
...Kerin Hope, the FT’s Athens correspondent, notes that “prices across the board are 50 to 60 per cent below pre-crisis — 2008 — levels”....
October 29, 2015
FT AlphavilleEquities
The 6am Cut London
...(Bloomberg) Schäuble flies to Athens with SME loans: The German finance minister travels to Athens today where he will offer €100m ($132m) in loans to small and medium-sized businesses through state-owned...
July 18, 2013
FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
The (early) Lunch Wrap
...(Bloomberg) Schäuble flies to Athens with SME loans: The German finance minister travels to Athens today where he will offer €100m ($132m) in loans to small and medium-sized businesses through state-owned...
July 18, 2013
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Life & Arts
The collections of Stanley J Seeger
...Seeger moved to the Canary Islands following the military coup in Athens in 1967, and finally settled in London....
January 24, 2014
FT AlphavilleEquities
The 6am Cut London
...(Reuters) Greek austerity votes nears: €31.3bn aid payment to Athens will only be made if parliament approves new austerity measures tonight....
November 7, 2012
FT AlphavilleIPOs
The (early) Lunch Wrap
...(Wall Street Journal) Peltz goes to France: US activist investor Nelson Peltz has embarked on his first fight in France after acquiring a stake in Danone....
November 7, 2012
FT Magazine
Oscar Pistorius: born to run
...Just six months after starting to train as an athlete, he won gold in the Athens Paralympic Games at 200m, breaking the world record. But it wasn’t enough....
May 25, 2012
World
Olympic wrap for day 13
...Idowu produced his best jump of the year to lead with 17.62m after the third round, only to see Nelson Evora of Portugal then leap 17.67m in round four....
August 21, 2008
ReviewLife & Arts
Fall of fame
...In fact, philosophers since the decline of ancient Athens have complained of cultural decay....
January 23, 2009
World
Phelps takes sixth gold as sprinters warm up
...Ejegayehu lost the 10,000m gold in embarrassing style in Athens, failing to react when a Chinese athlete, who she assumed was a lapped runner, swept past her at the death....
August 15, 2008
Simon Kuper
The eternal games
...Nelson dropped out of his race with cramp. Jennifer Sey’s marvellous and horrifying memoir Chalked Up shows how far we have come since then....
July 26, 2008
Vanessa FriedmanLife & Arts
What luxury means now
...According to one ancient tradition, Pheidis offered to build the Athena statue in Athens’ Parthenon out of cheap materials – but the proposal was vetoed by the assembly. “Shame! Shame!”...
September 7, 2007
UK schools
A civilising influence
...The 1933 Athens charter, for example, said that residential, work, transport and recreation should never be mixed....
April 20, 2007

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