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Enuma Okoro

Life & Arts columnist

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.
Email Enuma Okoro @EnumaOkoro  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The beauty and burdens we carry

    The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings

  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We should all play a part in raising the next generation

    Our duty to the young is not only to guide them into adulthood, but to listen to their hopes and fears

    A painting of a woman in humble medieval dress standing in a garden, her arm outstretched. Three apparitions float in the air on the left side of the canvas
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The beauty of creative friendships

    We should celebrate those relationships that shape our professional and vocational lives

  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Venice and the memory of water

    The essential ingredient of life is also a conduit for human connection

    A painting of the Grand Canal in Venice from 1740
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The half-forgotten art of listening

    Music often features in our lives, but we don’t give enough thought to how it can affect us physically and emotionally

  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Can past betrayals lead to new beginnings?

    The Easter story has more to do with our busy daily lives than you might imagine

    A 17th-century oil painting of a Biblical scene shows a young man in rags on his knees being comforted by an older man in red robes. Other figures stand nearby in the darkness, observing
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Windows on the world

    They offer us a view to the outside — but also invite us to reflect on our interior lives

    A woman sits on a window ledge, smoking a cigarett
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Feelings in the frame: when paintings pinpoint our emotions

    How visual art — and our own bodies — help us communicate what needs to be heard

    Van Gogh’s 1890 painting shows an old man in blue clothes hunched over on a wooden chair by a blazing fireplace. His elbows rest on his lap while his hands cover his face
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We should all seek meaning in the mundane

    Rituals and commonplace daily activities can help to sustain a sense of peace in an otherwise chaotic world

    Painting of a young woman pinning sheets on a washing line on a sunny day. The shadows of leaves pattern the white sheets
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We all need play in our lives

    A moment of freedom from our serious selves is both joyful and therapeutic

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Arts
    The wonderful possibilities of winter

    This season offers a chance to slow down and reflect on our lives

    A fox in the snow
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The many sides of Martin Luther King

    Heroes are human like the rest of us — and we should let their doubts and fears inspire us

  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Grace Wales Bonner at MoMA — art through the eye of a designer

    Themes of spirit and sound run through her New York show, curated as part of MoMA’s Artist’s Choice series

    A stylishly dressed woman sits on the edge of a Barcelona chair
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Here’s what we should treasure in the new year

    Moments and journeys need to be cherished and valued as much as any end result we pursue

    A 1660s painting shows a man holding an object to the light near the window of a darkened room crowded with papers, bottles and equipment
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Joseph and the value of ordinary lives

    The quiet carpenter of the Christmas story teaches us about steadfastness and finding wonder in the everyday

    Rembrandt’s 1645 painting ‘Joseph’s Dream’
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Finding delight amid the despair

    As seasonal festivities kick off, it’s important to recognise our need to reaffirm social connections

    A painting dated 1878 of an ornate, high-ceilinged ballroom crowded with ladies and gentlemen in period finery, all under a huge chandelier
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Bear witness to both your challenges and triumphs

    Paying attention to our daily joys and sorrows is important — and so too is making space for other people’s stories

  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The art that resets and restores us

    In troubled times, the life-affirming power of paintings offers respite — and moves us towards compassion

    A painting of a woman lying in some grasses on a beach, reading a book
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    Life & Arts
    A glimpse into the family photo albums of tomorrow

    Images on our phones have changed the way we make our collective memories

  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Let’s pause for breath and consider our shared humanity

    In our age of division and conflict, it requires reflection to focus on all that we have in common. That’s where art can help

    A bench topped by a slab of pale granite in which are engraved the words: ‘It can be startling to see one’s breath, let alone the breathing of a crowd. You usually don’t believe that people extend that far’
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The new beginnings within arm’s reach

    Where in our lives could we benefit from letting go?

  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Life & Arts
    When it’s time to dial down the volume

    Finding quiet spaces is vital for our wellbeing — but are we prepared to dwell in them?

  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Sacred journeys

    Pilgrimages can occur almost anywhere if we recognise that our lives are full of meaningful roads and destinations

  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Let the dance go on

    Summer is a period of vitality but we can harness that energy for other seasons

  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    We’re all part of life’s great orchestra

    The solution to a crisis may lie in recognising how deeply interwoven our lives are

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