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TANK TURNS 20:

the Autumn Epoch issue is out now!

ALONE AT THE PARTY:

Natalia Poniatowska’s unconventional event photography captures the forgotten fringes of celebrations

LYNNE TILLMAN:

before we welcome Lynne Tillman to our latest Book Talk on October 1st, here is an essential reading list featuring some of her major books, alongside interviews, talks and more

OUT OF CHARACTER:

part of London Design Festival, the new exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum vibrantly updates a 19th-century eccentricity

BORDERLESS FICTIONS:

the independent publishing house Charco Press brings Latin America’s contemporary literary talent to English-language audiences

PLAYING THE FIELD:

town meets country through traditional tweeds and checks in our latest autumn/winter editorial

VIOLENT CERAMICS:

the artist Paloma Proudfoot’s autopsy-inspired show ‘The Detachable Head Serves as a Cup’ gives form to the macabre

CHIMERA:

Jean Baudrillard’s photography cuts through layers, veils and façades to reveal a preoccupation with illusory surfaces. From the Gossip Issue

MUTE MATTER:

LA-based photographer Sergiy Barchuk strips away visual noise to create harmonious still lifes

THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION:

an introduction to this year’s shortlist featuring Vahni Capildeo, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, J.O. Morgan, Danez Smith and Tracy K. Smith

COLOUR BLOCK:

visceral tones contend with heat of late summer in this still life from Barcelona. Photography by Javi Dardo, styling by Eva Bernal

MY PLACE:

the artist Dina Oganova’s series of photographs ‘My Place’ takes an intimate look at Georgia’s first post-Soviet generation

HELIOTROPE:

Viviane Sassen’s childhood memories of Africa inspire images of surreal beauty in ‘Heliotrope’, published by TBW Books

THE DARK INTERVAL:

Read one of the newly translated letters of bereavement sent by Rainer Maria Rilke. Wise and humane, each of his correspondences offer a profound consolation

TANK & MONTBLANC FASHION WRITING PRIZE 2018:

An opportunity to discover the next generation of fashion writers! Open to writers around the world aged 25 years old and under

DIRECTIONS:

“The doctors would suck all his blood out of his body, boil it or something, and then inject it back in.” Exclusive flash fiction by Yuri Herrera

TWO POEMS:

read two poems by the award-winning Vahni Capildeo from her latest collection Venus as Bear, which is shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection

HOT PROPERTY:

struggling to find an affordable home? Find a perfect house and outfit to match in this fashion video from the Gossip Issue

TANK BOOK TALK #3

TANK presents a discussion between authors Lynne Tillman and Michael Bracewell in the latest installment of our annual series of book talks

MOMMY:

the artist Maggie Lee’s feature length documentary describes her experience of her mother’s death with unflinching candour

THE MOST RADICAL GESTURE:

with the arrival of Alessandro Michele in 2015, Gucci experienced a profound détournement. With a painterly eye, Hellen van Meene envisioned a new future for the house. From TANK's Realism Issue

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE:

In his second autobiographical novel, Éduoard Louis tackles the trauma of rape with a raw and complex honesty

GETTING READY FOR THE PARTY:

“At 49, her husband, still handsome and lanky and devilish, was, indeed, going bald.” Flash fiction from Ottessa Moshfegh

BEIRUT & SOMETIMES ELSEWHERE:

images from an ongoing visual narrative about the photographer and artist Tanya Traboulsi’s travels and encounters

MACHINE LEARNING PICTIONARY:

a fun browser game from Cris Valenzuela uses AI technology to playful and poetic effect

SEVERIN GLANCE:

the London-based DJ and producer provides a heady, exclusive TANK mix for carnival weekend

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE:

Play along with a “spot the difference” zine from the idiosyncratic Hato Press, made in collaboration with the Japanese artist Himaa

ICE FISHERS:

Aleksey Kondratyev’s photos of Kazakh fishermen uncover a sublime beauty in practices of survival

COLUMBUS:

Kogonada’s directorial debut is a poignant meditation on architecture and intimacy. Ahead of its UK release, watch an exclusive new trailer for the film

YOU’RE MY FAVOURITE WORK OF ART:

Colour and form define this shoot set in David Hockney’s first London apartment. From the Realism Issue

MULATU ASTATKE:

a reissue of the great Ethio-jazz musician’s debut album is a reminder of the value of collaboration

ITALIAN HOLIDAYS:

Claude Nori’s vibrant, sun-soaked photos capture the careless freedom of Italian summers of the 1980s

TAKAMBA WHATSAPP 2018:

This week’s listening? A WhatsApp recording direct from Timbouctou, released by Sahel Sounds, a label that distributes music from the Sahel region of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger

SEABIRD:

the American photographer Bobby Doherty captures fleeting moments and pairs the mundane with the sublime in his debut book

ALGIERS, THIRD WORLD CAPITAL:

Elaine Mokhtefi’s memoir recounts life in Algeria of the 1960s, home to a cast of artists and exiles thronging to the frontline of the fight for African independence

HEAVENLY BODIES:

a return to Palais Bulles, scene of one of Raf Simons’ final collections for Dior, alongside memories of his tenure from industry experts and beyond

THE ARCHITECTURE OF APARTHEID:

the late photographer David Goldblatt takes viewers on a tour of Johannesburg, uncovering how the “aggressive materialism” of its architecture shows the legacy of apartheid

TELFAR x FAKA:

the New York-based label brings its off-beat vision to London’s Serpentine Gallery with a mesmeric performance and preview for their Spring/Summer 2019 collection

THE LAST HURRAH:

the photographer Dafydd Jones captures the hedonistic hunt balls, debutante dances and wedding parties of Thatcher’s Britain

CRUEL PRACTICE:

south London lyricist and DJ Shygirl’s debut EP, released by Nuxxe, is a dizzying display of feminine aggression

GLEANING TRUTHS:

a long overdue retrospective of the films of Agnès Varda, the great matriarch of French cinema, is taking place across the UK through August and September

IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK FORD:

the poet discusses his autobiographical turn, growing up across the world, being drugged on a train to Madrid, meeting Allen Ginsberg and more

SURGE:

“Mountains are languages and languages are mountains” – the latest book by 93-year-old Etel Adnan is a radical and tender set of aphorisms for an unknown future

HIDENORI KUMAKIRI:

TANK talks to the Japanese designer behind Beautiful People, the brand bringing a unique conceptual sense of play to womenswear

SUPER SET MASTER:

an interview with the late, great Michael Howells, the celebrated production designer who worked at the cutting edge of fashion, theatre and film for over 30 years

REVOLUTION REVISITED:

Alessandro Michele’s reconceptualisation of Gucci continues to expound a new and insurgent baroque, captured by the heightened realism of Sarah Dobai’s photography. From the Gossip Issue

TAO LIN:

the divisive novelist returned this year with ‘Trip’, an intimate, nonfiction look into psychedelics. Watch a video of the interview with the author from 2013

THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 LONGLIST:

as one of the most prestigious literary awards returns, read our interviews with the selected authors Sally Rooney and Rachel Kushner, as well as with Jacqueline Rose, a member of this year’s judging panel

GENERATION WEALTH:

why Lauren Greenfield’s lurid take on the ultra-rich and famous feels like a missed opportunity

LEEDS POSTCARDS:

a selection of darkly funny and irreverent political postcards, published by Four Corners Books, are forms of activism by design

A WORD IN YOUR SHELL-LIKE:

from earrings to ears, information travels fast. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Hamish Wirgman. Fashion from the Gossip Issue

TANK BOOK TALK WITH MARINA WARNER AND SHUMON BASAR:

watch our video of the wide-ranging discussion featuring myth, feminism, autofiction and other attributes of our overwhelming present

POOL PAINTINGS PART 1:

Navine G. Khan-Dossos’s new exhibition in Sofia explores the uncanny image of the swimming pool, from Ottoman baths to Soviet relics

IN CONVERSATION WITH PRETI TANEJA:

on her award-winning debut novel, We That Are Young, which sets Shakespeare’s King Lear amongst the super-rich of contemporary India

ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON READING LIST:

as “Michael Jackson: On the Wall” draws crowds to the National Portrait Gallery this month, TANK returns to some of our favourite writing on MJ, from Hilton Als to Morgan Parker

IN CONVERSATION WITH LUBAINA HIMID:

Ismail Einashe speaks to the artist about the aftermath of winning the 2017 Turner Prize and the enduring need to address Europe’s colonial legacy

TOBAGO TRACKS INTERVIEW AND MIX:

an exclusive TANK mix and interview from DJ Pitch and Gribs, the partners behind Tobago Tracks, one of London’s most versatile, up-and-coming labels

MY DEEP SECRET:

a new exhibition from Reba Maybury and Will Sheldon at Arcadia Missa makes a pornographic spectacle of masculinity in crisis

SERPENTINE PAVILION 2018:

this year’s breeze-block Pavilion, the work of Mexican artist Frida Escobedo, is a dynamic blurring of worlds

IN CONVERSATION WITH KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI:

TANK talks to the director of the Borderland Foundation, an award-winning artist’s collective recovering Poland’s multicultural heritage

TISH MURTHA:

a survey of the photographer’s harrowing and beautiful images capture disadvantaged communities from within

PEOPLE, YOU CAN CONFUSE:

leather, ambiguity and sexual fluidity in a shoot issue 64. Photography by Lasse Dearman, styling by Bobby Hook

‘AGE OF’ AND ‘MYRIAD’:

Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album and “concertscape” at the Barbican Centre welcome audiences into the eccentric producer’s hallucinatory worlds

CODA:

a new documentary film paints an intimate portrait of the composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, revealing a true pioneer at work

ANDALUSIA:

Photography by Jessica Gordon presents a brooding, unidealised view of the southern Spanish region, which is Europe’s hottest hinterland

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