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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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  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    Television
    The crafty, comic genius of HBO’s Insecure

    Issa Rae’s series about ‘regular black people living life’ helped to shift the TV landscape

  • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
    Arts
    A season for solidarity

    What an Advent tale about two women’s friendship teaches us about courage and solidarity

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
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    Filmmaker Ava DuVernay: ‘I was like, “they’re doing this? I can do this”’

    The director, producer and powerhouse on remaking Hollywood — and the question she asks men who want to work for her

  • Saturday, 27 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Putting the ‘giving’ into Thanksgiving

    Black Friday and Cyber Monday take the headlines, but Giving Tuesday is chance to make a real difference for others and ourselves

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The fine art of finding happiness

    What great painters can teach us about being happy in the here and now

  • Saturday, 6 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Halloween and the licence to be anyone

    The celebration gives children and adults the chance to dress up and free their imaginations without the pressures of conformity

  • Saturday, 30 October, 2021
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Joan Jonas: ‘I realised why people have to have gods and myth’

    The pioneer of American performance art on ritual, fairy tales and the stories behind her New York show

  • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Taking care over conversation

    There is room in our lives to engage with what might seem incompatible beliefs

  • Saturday, 2 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    ‘Sankofa’: the movie that teaches us to go back to the past

    The landscape of history is the key to understanding our present — even if it scares us

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  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Visual Arts
    ‘Blackness has been a constant reinvention of ourselves’

    Alvaro Barrington on his new show, which draws inspiration from Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his own Brooklyn childhood

  • 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

  • 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

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