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Enuma Okoro is a weekly columnist for FT Weekend's Life & Arts. She writes on the intersection of arts, culture and life. Based in New York, she is a writer, speaker and cultural curator.
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  • Saturday, 18 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    A season to retreat — and reflect

    Autumn is a reminder of the world’s rhythms of birth, death, regeneration and renewal

  • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
    Arts
    Kanye West and the emotional power of home

    It grounds us and gives us a sense of belonging and direction. What happens when it’s gone?

  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Calida Rawles: ‘I use soft colours people wouldn’t associate with black men’

    The LA-based painter talks about how her hyper-realistic work reflects and challenges society’s ideas about black lives

  • Saturday, 28 August, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The rituals that keep us going

    In times of disruption, we need to cultivate habits of thought and action that provide emotional nourishment

  • Saturday, 21 August, 2021
    Visual Arts
    ‘We will not be silent’ — the plight of Afghanistan’s women artists

    The female voices that have flourished over the past 20 years must still be celebrated

  • Saturday, 14 August, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Selfies, self-portraits and our sense of identity

    From the Renaissance to today, there has been a desire to reflect and reshape the versions of ourselves we want to show the world

  • Saturday, 7 August, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The Parisian Agency and the luxury of family

    The real-estate dealers at the heart of Netflix’s reality show have more to offer than high-end properties

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    InterviewPhotography
    Tyler Mitchell: visions of an American utopia

    The photographer and film-maker on looking to the past and future in his first US solo exhibition

  • Saturday, 24 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The life-long art of making friends

    At any age, to encounter someone new with whom you feel a genuine connection is an immeasurable gift

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  • Saturday, 17 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Can we learn to be sociable again?

    The art of hospitality in the post-lockdown world

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    A love letter to New York City

    As the city reopens, we should remember what we love about the places we call home

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The power of a great mentor

    A mentoring relationship is a mutual one, because we never outgrow our ability to learn from one another

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    If you could step inside a painting, which would it be?

    As immersive Van Gogh exhibits sell out across the world, art’s alternate realities have never looked so good

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    In Treatment: perfect therapy for discomfiting times

    HBO’s psychotherapy drama lays bare the lies we tell ourselves

  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Kara Walker: ‘Living with somebody else’s pain is tricky’

    The American artist examines themes of power, race and gender relations, sex and violence in her Swiss exhibition

  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    Life & Arts
    We all need to have our stories heard

    From paintings to a 60-second novel, the invitation to share experience is at the heart of what makes us human

  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Body language and the return of the ballet

    Watching dancers is a reminder of the wonders of movement after the restrictions of lockdown

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    Life & Arts
    When art isn’t just for art’s sake

    Artists are led by their own convictions and inspirations — but do they have a duty to answer to society’s expectations too?

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Trevor Noah and our need to laugh

    It may not be a cure-all — but when injustice is too much to bear, comedy has the power to remind us of the work still at hand

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    Collecting: Frieze New York 2021
    The power of seeing

    Honoured at Frieze New York, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis’s Vision and Justice Project investigates visual culture and links between art, law and equality

  • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
    Visual Arts
    Pearl Lines by Walter Price — dancing with whiteness

    The US painter’s first UK solo exhibition reflect on his experience as a black man in predominantly white spaces

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Visual Arts
    Rap, royalty and the secrets of a well-lived life

    The disparate lives of Prince Philip and the rapper DMX both exemplify the virtue of generosity

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Music
    Lessons for an improvised life

    As we emerge from lockdown, two jazz masterpieces have much to teach us about accepting uncertainty

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Amy Sherald on making radical art from the everyday

    The ordinary becomes political in the New Jersey-based artist’s paintings

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The problem we still live with

    From mid-century America to Meghan Markle — how Norman Rockwell’s paintings shed light on the enduring blight of racism

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