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Enuma Okoro

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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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  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Rooms of our own — art and the inner lives of women

    Finding inspiration in the artists who illuminate women’s rich interior lives

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Visual Arts
    What we learn in the wilderness

    In the most barren of seasons, there are yet glimmers of hope

  • Saturday, 6 February, 2021
    Life & Arts
    How Covid changed our sense of time

    As the pandemic upends our daily routines, we are learning how to seize the moment

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Chagall and the art of everyday enchantment

    Lessons in finding delight from the great Russian-French artist

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Life & Arts
    An American epiphany

    The assault on the Capitol was shocking. But 2021 holds the promise of a safer, saner US

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Immaculate perception: the many manifestations of Mary

    The Annunciation has been depicted by countless artists. Can they help us to better understand Mary?

  • Saturday, 24 October, 2020
    Life & Arts
    New York art diary: a miracle on 24th Street

    ‘I take a deep breath, wanting to inhale all the radiant, revitalising energy spilling out of the tapestry’

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