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Alexis Haut|Interviews

Beauty queenpin: ‘Deli Boys’ makeup head Nesrin Ismail on cosmetics as masks and mirrors

Glamour enlivens heritage and history in Hulu’s genre-bending series about a Pakistani family running an international drug ring from Philly corner stores.

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Susan Morris|Cinema

‘The conscience of this country’: How filmmakers are documenting resistance in the age of censorship

Debuting amid a global swell of authoritarianism, this year’s festival standouts are stark, instructive primers on refusing to be silenced.

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Nila Rezaei|Essays

"Dear mother, I made us a seat”: a tribute to the women of Iran

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Alexis Haut|Cinema

It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green: ‘Wicked’ spells for struggle and solidarity

On the ruby-slippered heels of DO editor-in-chief Ellen McGirt’s conversation with Wicked director Jon M. Chu, columnist Alexis Haut decipherates the film’s lessons for a design community going through shiz. 

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Alexis Haut|Cinema

About face: ‘A Different Man’ makeup artist Mike Marino on transforming pretty boys and surfacing dualities

On the cusp of Oscar Sunday, we’re talking award-winning makeup that gets under the skin.

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Alexis Haut|Analysis

Innies see red, Innies wear blue: Severance’s use of color to seed self-discovery

With Apple’s most beloved show back on the airwaves after three long years, DO’s film columnist pens a valentine to all the ways season one used red to spell Innie liberation.

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Jessica Helfand|Essays

Véronique Vienne : A Remembrance

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Alexis Haut|Cinema

‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison

Sing Sing is a movie that takes place in a prison, but it’s not a prison movie.

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Jessica Helfand|Interviews

Josef Koudelka, Next: A Visual Biography: Ten Questions for Melissa Harris

“It was essential that I humanize Koudelka and extricate him from the more reductive and pedestaled realm of myth where so many position him," says Harris.

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Susan Morris|Reviews

DOC NYC: Music

A welcome clutch of films about women in music were shown at DOC NYC 2024.

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Susan Morris|Reviews

DOC NYC: Art + Illness

DOC NYC featured films about making art, and art intersecting with illness.

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Susan Morris|Reviews

DOC NYC: Profiles

Profiles of artists abounded at DOC NYC.

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The Past, Present and Future of Design with Lee Moreau, DB|BD Season 12 Finale

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The Wizards of AI are sad and lonely men