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Douglas Markowitz is a writer, editor, and critic covering art, music, film, travel, and other topics. He is the founding editor of Expo, a website covering global culture, and his work has appeared in The Art Newspaper, Resident Advisor, Artnet, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet News, Grammy.com, scrmbl, the Miami Herald, the Sun Sentinel, and many other publications.
Douglas previously served as culture editor at the Phoenix New Times and currently serves as film critic for the Miami New Times. In 2023 he was named a finalist for the Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards and was nominated the following year for a Sunshine State Award by the Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for his coverage of the local art scene. He joined the Florida Film Critics Circle in 2025.
He graduated with honors from the University of North Florida (B.S. in Communication) in 2017 and attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan on foreign exchange in 2016. He holds Canadian citizenship through his father, who was born and raised in Montreal. He is currently based in South Florida pending an upcoming relocation to New York.
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The heated cultural climate is felt at the fair, from a caustic Maurizio Cattelan sculpture to Cristin Tierney's stand interrogating the meaning of the 25th anniversary of US independence.
The late musical colossus's first comprehensive exhibition in Japan makes you feel like his spirit is in the room, sitting at the piano.
(2023 Esserman-Knight Journalism Award Finalist) Hostile real estate prices and government policies have the city's promoters and artists in an existential chokehold. But there's a new generation of nightlife locals with inventive solutions to combat the lack of space.
Few figures are as legendary in the techno genre as Jeff Mills, whose influential DJing style is acclaimed the world over.
Sean Baker's Oscar-winning stripper Cinderella story is a wildly entertaining parable of class and status.
The kabuki theater drama that took Japan by storm is the first great film of the year.
Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, the source material for the film, is based on Florida's notorious Dozier School for Boys.
Long marginalised outside the North of England, the genre is back en vogue thanks to a post-pandemic surge of interest. The scene's key players unpack the story so far.
From Vocaloid acts to anime-centric productions and a plethora of genre-bending releases, Japan's domestic pop market has incredible depth and growing Western interest.
A portrait of Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said was included in ICA's exhibit - then, one day, it was removed.
Gianfranco Rosi beautifully captures the unease of life in Naples, near the legendary volcano, and of modern times in his new film.
What attracts people to F1 Miami? There's much to be said about the visitor experience, which feels, appropriately for Florida, like a theme park.
The Oscar contender tells the story of a refugee architect trying to make his way in a hostile postwar American landscape.
The director, one of the greatest and most influential visionaries of the American screen, leaves behind a monumental legacy.
Interview with Sean Baker, director of Oscar-nominated film "The Florida Project."
A new exhibit at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, Florida, details the painstaking process of creating the Japanese anime movie "Akira."
Tomas Vu's Blackstar 16/25/60, an exhibition at the alternative art space Locust Projects in Miami, is as much a shrine to David Bowie as it is an investigation into the nature of fandom, and how we use pop cultural markers as wayfinding points in our own personal journeys.
The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film's engagement with his art.
Third Horizon Film Festival, focusing on cutting-edge cinema from the Caribbean, remains one of the most unique film events in Miami.
Oolite Arts in Miami Beach removed an artwork featuring a pro-Palestinian slogan from a window display at a local Walgreens.
"There are no lyrics, just a force of pure sound, and that’s the way Hecker likes it."
The Superbad and Barbie actor reflects on working with Wes Anderson (The Phoenician Scheme) and David Lynch on (Twin Peaks).
Freedom is the main idea that runs through Overmono's work – freedom to dance and have fun, to be at ease with oneself and not be judged, to let go of ego and inhibitions, and to commune with your fellow dancers.
"I Saw the TV Glow," by writer and director Jane Schoenbrun, stars Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine as two teenagers searching for their true selves.
The documentary "Direct Action" demonstrates that fiery protests and violent police encounters are just one facet of the real work of activism. Reviewed at the 62nd New York Film Festival.
From Travis Scott's mind-blowing helicopter entrance to Playboi Carti's never-before-heard tracks, Rolling Loud's 10th anniversary was quite the celebration.
A specific memory permeates the work of Argentinian artist Lucía Maman. When she was 14, she remembers seeing a butterfly on the ground, flapping its wings. A male schoolmate walked up and stepped on it.
Mitski's sold-out tour opener in Miami Beach solidified her as an onstage presence of generational significance.
Why have at least two people paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the right to claim ownership of a banana duct-taped to a wall?
When you eat here, you truly feel as though you are dining in the heart of Osaka.
"Marquez could have done what the majority of collectors do and kept his art to himself, after all. But it’s precisely that point that ultimately turns the institution into an affront."
All over North America, activists are organizing, lobbying and sometimes even protesting for their nightlife communities.
Jungle didn't appear out of the blue sometime after lockdown. Its prevalence is the result of more than a decade of underground work by fans and DJs.
According to a new book, MDMA is not dangerous when used properly and may change life as we know it for the better.
The artist draws upon the legacy of atomic weapons testing in her native Utah to create an immersive show that's as beautiful as it is terrifying.
"(Holley) is proof that through art, anybody can be seen, and anything can be made greater than the sum of its parts."
The Rupture LDN DJ delivers a vibrant album that showcases the health and creativity of the modern jungle scene.
BTS entering into hiatus to serve their mandatory military service has left space for a new generation.
The artist talks working in a replica of his studio inside Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the choice to make art in desperate conditions
Interview with director/musician Boots Riley about his film "Sorry to Bother You" and U.S. politics.
Tim Reaper's collaborative series returns with four more cuts expanding the horizons of modern jungle.
The event offers a chance to learn about and experience the sport without setting foot on a plane.
The art crowd has set their eyes on the working class neighborhood of Allapattah. Is the neighborhood doomed, or do residents have a fighting chance against their new neighbors?
"In a way, it's hard to call what Loriel Beltrán does 'painting.' He uses paint, certainly, to make his artworks, but the protracted, pain-staking process he utilizes does not resemble painting in any traditional sense."
"No other event in the last 20 years has transformed Miami Beach and the surrounding areas more than the arrival of Art Basel."
Report from the public viewing of XXXTentacion's body. I reported on the rapper for New Times for over a year until his death in June 2018.
"Forensic Architecture" takes visitors to a point where art, science, and justice intersect.
During my tenure as copy desk chief at Raygun Agency, a Miami-based marketing firm, I completed these client case studies as part of a wider website redesign.
Blog article prepared for a client in multifamily real estate.
I served as production assistant and music supervisor on this student film.