Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.HTSI editor Jo Ellison \u00a9 Marili AndreWe framed this season\u2019s arts issue around the idea of masks. A powerful symbol in the\u00a0art world, they are used to amplify, disguise,\u00a0manipulate and conceal. In the theatre, they help\u00a0to create a new persona, whether in a literal sense or\u00a0something more symbolic. It can be psychological or physical: a mask hides the multitude of complicated feelings that separate our public and private selves.\u00a0As one of the greatest actors of her generation \u2013 or any other, for that matter \u2013 it seemed appropriate that Judi Dench should be on the cover to announce our theme. Dench is so familiar to audiences that many assume they really know her, and over the years her public persona has ascended to that of \u201cnational treasure\u201d \u2013 she is so deeply held in our affection that one can forget she is actually a human being. Now 90, she limits her work to that\u00a0which she\u00a0can manage with failing eyesight, but she maintains a pretty busy schedule for all that. Her mind is still busy with all the Shakespearean heroines she has played over the course of her career; she recently co-wrote a book about the\u00a0playwright called The Man Who Pays the Rent.Perhaps the secret to Judi Dench\u2019s performances is that she remains so emotionally open to audiencesFiona Golfar asked Dench\u2019s friends and colleagues to\u00a0tell us their best stories about her incredible career. They reveal a woman who is naughty \u2013 with a gift for reducing everyone to giggles at inappropriate moments \u2013 saucy, seductive, generous, light-hearted and rather good at arts and crafts. Ironically, in an industry in which so many keep their guard up, Dench is without guile. Perhaps the secret to her extraordinary performances is that she remains so emotionally open to her audiences \u2013 no one can see the mask.\u00a0Leigh Bowery, the late Australian performance artist, dedicated his career to becoming his own body of work. His multiple guises, known as \u201clooks\u201d, via which he channelled a host of different personalities, were confounding. In some ways the looks obscured the man behind the costumes; they also gave him the freedom to express his true self. As a huge exhibition opens in celebration of his legacy, Victoria Woodcock looks at masks\u00a0as a creative aid. From Batman to Bj\u00f6rk, and from Gillian Wearing to Kneecap, masks are a provocative tool with which to rattle the status quo.\u00a0Mike Marino\u2019s skills as a make-up artist have been key\u00a0to some of the greatest cinematic transformations in recent times. He turned Colin Farrell from matin\u00e9e idol into the monstrous-looking Oz Cobb in The Penguin, helping Farrell\u00a0waddle his way towards a Golden Globe. Marino is currently hoping to convert a third Oscar nomination into an actual statuette for his work on A Different Man, for which he worked with Sebastian Stan to create\u00a0a character who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumours to grow along the patient\u2019s nerves. Marino\u2019s skills are sometimes overlooked in an industry in which AI and digital enhancement are increasingly being used in preference to his specialist skills. Jill Krasny finds that in his painstaking efforts to disguise his characters, however, his proudest achievements are when a character\u2019s humanity shines through.\u00a0Where do you go to let your mask fall? For much of Hollywood, that place is the Chateau Marmont. Now almost a century old and still as chic as ever, the hotel off Sunset Boulevard has always been a place for secret assignations, surprise encounters and a safe space in which\u00a0to let down one\u2019s guard. It\u2019s also a place of creative ferment: the novelist AM Homes has often stayed there while writing and finds it a place where she can reinvent, experiment and risk trying things she might not at home. \u201cIt is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality,\u201d she writes in an essay. Like the best masks, it gives you licence to do things you otherwise wouldn\u2019t dare.\u00a0@jellison22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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