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NO LOVE FOR WALMART:

can socialists learn lessons from Amazon, Uber and Walmart?

IS THIS TOMORROW:

30 artists and architects come together to present an uncertain future

electronic composer Holly Herndon collaborates with Spawn, an AI trained on collective vocal experimentation, on latest single “Eternal”

TANK MIX | MANG:

the latest TANK mix comes via London-based producer and DJ Mang, whose hi-res productions borrow from medieval RPG sound-design and 1990s hardcore

WORLDING READING LIST:

to imagine a world is to imagine it’s landscape - to render its trees, valleys, mountains and myths in concrete detail

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO:

a sonic adaptation of Peter Strickland’s “Beberian Sound Studio” at the Donmar Warehouse

PODCAST | A RADICAL HEART:

Fatima Bhutto joins TANK to discuss her latest book, The Runaways, which explores how modern alienation drives radicalisation

Stine Deja explores our ever-colliding real and virtual worlds through animation and digital image

the photographer documents graffiti artists in Paris

photography by Ali Mahdavi, styling by Catherine Baba. First published in the Blow-up issue, Autumn 2007

Matt Copson is a fox, who dreamt he was a man, who dreamt he was a fox, who makes some phone calls

Paolo Sorrentino returns to Italy of the early 2000’s to take on the myth and scandal of Berlusconi’s legacy

BIRDS OF PASSAGE:

a mythic tale of social collapse in the deserts of northern Columbia

Kettle’s Yard presents a monochrome set of images by the artist that play with chaos and order

a new reissue from Freedom to Spend provides a chance to revisit the bizarre and catchy 1980s music of Bomberman composer June Chikuma

photography by Roni Ahn, styling by Jo Heng

TIME OUT OF TIME:

William Basinski’s new album samples the the merging of two distant black holes

HERE AND NO ELSEWHERE:

the forces of today prefer a lesser, not greater, outdoors

a young trans ballerina struggles to make it through puberty and find acceptance as a woman

SOLIDARITY WITHOUT SAMENESS:

Patricia Reed asks what it might take to form meaningful political solidarity when our lives are increasingly shaped by impersonal, abstract systems

Rachel Rose’s cyclical film-installation chronicles the transformation of the English countryside from living cosmology into private property through the story of a 17th century witch

DEATH BECOMES HER:

Angel-Ho’s vocal debut is a bold and brazen assertion of self and an outspoken performance of trans-becoming

Michela De Mattei explores the little-understood, biocultural phenomenon of blushing

full of mistranslations and slippery meanings, Laure Prouvost’s new artist book is an index of the absurd

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN:

the artist on her lifelong collaboration with her cat, Kitch.

BACK TO THE LAND READING LIST:

when nothing feels real yet everything feels like too much, the fantasy of retreat turns magnetic

an exclusive mix and Q&A with the Berlin-based producer with an affinity for the unexpected

sameness and difference in earthy tones. Photography by Yuji Fukuhara, styling by Rumiko Koyama

five years after his cult-debut mixtape on Hippos for Tanks, Triad God is back with a new LP

THE ZAD AND NOTAV:

how resistance to high-speed infrastructures gives rise to new political horizons in the European countryside

a photographer rediscovers his old family printing press in a small Peak District village

DO YOU KEEP THINKING THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY:

Georgia Horgan employs 17th Century “political pornographies” to interrogate present social structures

Essarter éditions probes a collective utopic memory of the Soviet Union

Derek Jarman’s difficult excursion into myth and morality at the edge of life

DECEPTION AT EVERY TURN:

the new fashion of CGI models on sites like Instagram takes us even further from IRL meatspace

interviews spanning the author’s career chart her shifting self-image and long-standing values

ARTISTES À LA UNE:

the Paris exhibition imagines a series of Vogue covers featuring inspirational women in a collaboration with UN

Erwin Wurm in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

burnt out hues and dreams of better days. Photography by Vince M. Aung, styling by Star Burleigh

PODCAST WITH OWEN HATHERLEY:

the writer and journalist discusses the complex legacy of the USSR 15 years after the end of history

Ali Abbasi’s twisted fable of care and contamination

FEELINGS OVER MEANING:

Milan during fashion week was (maybe still is) in the grips of a dark but emotionally charged mood

an extract from the ground-breaking Spanish novel by Agustín Fernández Mallo

Sean Steadman’s warped paintings foam at the edges of abstraction

INVASIVE SPECIES:

Egyptian poet Marwa Helal on her new book, the pressure to write about “local colour” and the highs and lows of writing workshops

COPPER GEOGRAPHIES:

Ignacio Acosta invites the viewer on a journey of copper from raw material

a look at the British architect’s early sketchbooks. By Josie Mitchell

brands to look up to – new designs on the horizon

WHO KILLED MY FATHER:

read an excerpt from Édouard Louis’s searing indictment of the cruelty endured by the French working class

IDEA TO ACTION TO OBJECT:

a new exhibition of Walter De Maria’s sketches places his transcendent geometric sculpture within a more humanist context

in the latest instalment of the TANK mix series, Jay Mitta brings you accelerated dance music from the streets of Dar es Salaam

IN CONVERSATION WITH ERWIN WURM:

on the occasion of Erwin Wurm’s largest solo exhibition in the UK at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, TANK spoke with the artist about comedy, eternity and everyday abstraction

a new exhibition confronts stereotypical notions of a single Latin-American identity

a translation of Yūichi’s avant-garde manga

POETRY FOR CORPORATIONS:

when humans learned to write like machines. Selected corporate copy by Bruna Mori

with the return of Levi’s Engineered design for spring/summer 2019, we look back to our 1999 collaborative publication celebrating the launch of the range

IN CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANO AMARAL:

TANK speaks with the Brazilian artist about cryogenics, ASMR and the blurring of the synthetic and the organic

in his latest photobook, German photographer Christian Werner peels past the celebrity skin of the city of dreams to uncover a golden-hued mundanity

CHARLOTTESVILLE:

punching Nazis in the face: a philosopher makes the case for violent resistance

IN THE BEGINNING:

a new exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early photographs at London’s Hayward gallery repositions the controversial artist’s oeuvre

IN CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN JONES:

the British designer discusses Brighton as Mars, the Royal Pavilion as a fantasy land, and the transcendent possibilities of design

are the days of human translators numbered, or will translation technology’s lack of linguistic nuance continue to be a flaw that’s impossible to ignore?

TRANCE READING LIST:

both an emptied mind and an excess of feeling, a garish music genre and an ancient ritual activity, trance is ubiquitous and elusive

A new novel by British experimentalist Isabel Waidner set on the Isle of Wight

IN CONVERSATION WITH ERIN RILEY:

TANK spoke to the artist about how she processes digital culture through her craft and the idea of the disposable

DISGENDERED MOTION:

Marloes ten Bhömer imagines new possibilities in human kinematics at the Copenhagen Fashion Film Awards 2019

AMERICAN GENIUS:

read an extract on safety, slowness and other people’s stories from Lynne Tillman’s newly reissued tragi-comedy

LOST LOST LOST:

celebrating the humane, avant-garde work of American-Lithuanian film-maker Jonas Mekas

in a new publication from Loose Joints, Felicia Honkasalo documents her reimagining of her grandfather’s life in the mines of Cold-War-era Finland

on his most information-heavy release yet, live-code virtuoso Lil Data makes music for supercomputers

THE EDGE OF REASON:

photography by Brett Lloyd, styling by Sara Gilmour. From TANK’s City Limits issue, Autumn 2014

GIVE ZERO DUCKS:

in a new installation, Italian artist Mauro Bonacina pays attention to distraction

Franco “Bifo” Beradi on desire, impotence and the evolving ideology of contemporary fascism

deep in the Italian Dolomites, Marion Verboom sculpts the imbrication of geology and culture

in her first major solo exhibition in the UK, the Scottish artist confronts the perils of data capitalism with lamblike cunning

a girl who isn’t Chloë Sevigny plays a violin under the setting New York sun. Eight writers from around the world respond

read three fragments from Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewarts speculative atlas of ordinariness and attention

INFORMATION SKIES:

Metahaven’s elliptical fable of data and dream-worlds. Now streaming on vdrome.org

looks that make you look again. Photography and styling by Brigita Žižytė and Octavia Pendrill-Adams

IN CONVERSATION WITH MEGAN PLUNKETT:

the LA-based artist discusses working as an unlicensed private investigator, the site-specific internet and dogs that talk

Kirsten Owen glides between worlds. Directed by Allie Yonick

SPHERES OF DESTINY:

bubbles are the key to understanding how life on this planet evolved from a primordial soup, billions of years ago

Congo-born, Belgium-based producer Nkisi works at the intersection of club music and African cosmologies to create new forms of perception

set at the walls of an isolated detention centre of the coast of Australia, Gabrielle Brady’s documentary is a mythic fable of life and borders

read an extract from Ser Serpas’s iPhone note account of her tumultuous experience at an Ivy League institution looking to diversify

UGLY GIRL HAND CREAM:

Cape Town-based artist Gitte Möller draws from ancient mythology, prayer paintings, and motivational graphics to create a numinous psychic architecture

THE WORST IS YET TO COME:

the end of capitalism might also be the beginning of something crueler still. Read an extract from Peter Fleming’s survival guide

Ed Fornieles’s new cryptocurrency project combines the financial tools of the art world with the the creativity of the financial sector

subtle layers beneath a crisp sun. Photography by Pierre Lequeux, Styling by Carolina Augustin

a new exhibition celebrates the expansive cultural legacy of the queer east London basement-club

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE:

fashion photographers Hanna Moon and Joyce Ng’s playful vision of cultural mistranslation

A TIME FOR NEW DREAMS:

Grace Wales Bonner threads together magical resonances from across the Black Atlantic in a multisensory installation at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery

IN CONVERSATION WITH CAJSA VON ZEIPEL:

TANK speaks to the New York-based sculptor about about working with silicone for the first time, the tension between desire and aversion, and the experience of showing at Condo 2019

SEASONAL ASSOCIATE:

read an extract from Heike Geissler’s unsparing account of her time spent working in an Amazon warehouse

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOE KENNEDY:

writer and cultural theorist Joe Kennedy discusses his concept of "authentocracy" and the reactionary folksiness of British culture

a new exhibition from Sophia Al-Maria looks to ancient myths and speculative fiction as tools to imagine new futures

fifty-two galleries from across the globe present shows across London in a “collaborative exhibition” aiming to bring experimental art to an international audience.

read three poems by Rachael Allen, taken from her debut collection ‘Kingdomland’

DINING WITH HUMPTY DUMPTY:

read an extract from political dominatrix Reba Maybury’s tale of sexual politics and egg-shaped Tories

the Shanghai-based producer and vocalist crafts blurry lamentations from tender vocal-hooks and soft anime pianos

ON HER SHOULDERS:

activist and escaped ISIS slave Nadia Murad navigates the good intentions of the international community in her arduous search for justice.

BLUETOOTH FUTURISM:

listen to the puzzle-game synths of Nigerién musician Hama, amateur superstar of the digital Sahara.

SEXUAL WARFARE:

a survey of Alexis Hunter’s pioneering photography puts 1970s radical feminism in dialogue with our present sexual politics

watch an endurance webcam reading of Chris Kraus’ art-world anthology, ‘Social Practices’

JOCELYNE SAAB (1948-2019):

TANK remembers the late Jocelyne Saab, a fearless pioneer in Lebanese cinema

THE WAY OF COMETS:

in the closing weeks of their landmark ICA exhibition, Metahaven present a performance of poetry and a discussion of its present significance

EVERYTHING MUST FALL:

state brutality and the return of student politics in post-Apartheid South Africa

ALL I KNOW IS WHAT’S ON THE INTERNET:

a new group show at the Photographer's Gallery uncovers the invisible labour that sustains our online world

GREETINGS FROM THE BARRICADES:

revolutionary postcards in Imperial Russia

a new anthology from Pilot Press demonstrates the uses of queer anger in the age of the GRA, TERFs, Trump and all the rest

HOW TO SLEEP FASTER 9:

the latest issue of Arcadia Missa’s print journal examines the contemptuous politics of no-platforming

SOMETHING MORE THAN SUPERFICIAL PERFECTION:

a reading by Tina, TANK's full time voiceover artist

THE BLACK CITY:

an extract from the little-known German writer’s poetic ethnography of 1970s New York

collaborative fashion label Atelier E.B. transform the Serpentine into a shopfront in their astute survey of retail culture

the latest single from South African producer and lyricist Angel-Ho is an outspoken performance of trans femininity

in conversation with Natasha Young

read two poems from Martha Strickland’s deceptively plainspoken poetry collection

TANK LIVE ART 2018:

the best pieces from our Art section that you might have missed the first time around

TANK LIVE FILM 2018:

the best pieces from our Film section that you might have missed the first time around

TANK LIVE FASHION 2018:

the best pieces from our Fashion section that you might have missed the first time around

TANK LIVE BOOKS 2018:

the best pieces from our Books section you might have missed the first time around

TANK LIVE MUSIC 2018:

the best pieces from our Music section that you might have missed the first time around

INTENTIONALLY COLD:

the latest TANK mix comes via the South London producer whose stretched-out sounds explore the outer limits of grime

from TANK’s archive, a shoot and video from the late photographer

WINTER POETRY SELECTS:

in a new seasonal column for TANK, Rachael Allen selects the stand-out poetry books and pamphlets from her recent reading list

For her latest single, Holly Herndon teams up with fellow producer Jlin and Spawn, a “nascent machine intelligence”

NORTH WAS HERE:

a collection of journals and ephemera documents the five months artist and writer Ellie Ga spent aboard a research vessel adrift in the arctic ice

a reading list on the amorphous movement and the new political realities it announces

a quick-witted documentary film from Whitney Mallett tells the story of a town where, for three short years, no one lived in poverty

TRISTAN PIGOTT:

in conversation with the painter whose work puts forward a wry critique of our image-saturated present

LOADS OF SALADES:

After being selected to represent France at the 2019 Venice Biennale, artist and TANK-alumna Laure Prouvost has designed a tapestry to raise funds for the French Pavilion

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOEY ZWILLINGER:

the co-founder of the much buzzed about footwear startup Allbirds speaks to Caroline Issa about making the jump from biotech to fashion, building a mission-led business and embedding purpose into your product

A short film by Adam Thirlwell for Channel 4’s Random Acts playfully examines the difficult minutiae of building a better world

in his latest exhibition, photographic artist Jean-Vincent Simonet subjects his images to distorting post-production manipulations and experimental techniques

TANK & Montblanc Fashion Writing Prize 2018:

we are thrilled to announce the winners of the TANK & Montblanc Fashion Writing Prize 2018!

MOMENT OF TRUTH:

The first of its kind, a major exhibition at the Met Breuer reveals how artists since the 1960s have engaged with conspiracy

APPROXIMATE JOY:

Christopher Anderson's intimate and ambiguous photographs find moments of pause within the social flux of contemporary China

ALTER HEROES COALITION:

a newly extended group show at Mimosa House centres on the the alter ego as a challenge to the social constraints of identity.

this instalment of the TANK mix series features the NYC-based producer Dasychira and comes paired with a Q&A and exclusive video-premiere

outerwear that's best worn indoors. Photography by Sebastian Johansson, styling by Manuel Noreig

a surprising reissue of the underground Spanish drug horror ‘Arrebato’ offers a chance to revisit a twisted tale of cinematic vampirism

Satoshi Fujiwara's photobook of animals, SUVs and industrial drills presents a flattened world that manages to be both hyperreal and obscure

VAPE SHOP OLYMPIA:

Peter de Potter's photographs examine and enact the weird mechanics of post-social media visual communication

Sheila Rock's photographs of punk women documented the raw style and radical attitudes that defined the subculture

Michele Abeles' “World Cup”, named less for football than for spectatorship, is a show about looking and waiting

WE ATE THE ACID:

Joe Roberts vivid and playful imagery tunes in to the comic and creepy details of the psychedelic experience

Prada's new family of mysterious mascots, have found their way into TANK's latest Travel issue

“At Eternity’s Gate” and the canonisation of Van Gogh

TENDER QUESTIONS:

excerpts from So Mayer and Preti Taneja's dialogue on friendship

this instalment of the TANK mix series comes courtesy of Swan Meat, offering a unique blend of baroque club music

SURPLUS MEMORY:

Josephine Pryde's new exhibition at Simon Lee gallery, London “In Case My Mind is Changing” examines memory and potentiality in a digital world

a reading from Tina, TANK'S full-time voiceover artist, excerpted from our latest Travel issue

Read two poems from Latvian poet Artis Ostups's new collection, published by Ugly Duckling Presse and translated by Jayde Will

NICOLAS ROEG (1928—2018):

Shumon Basar remembers the mercurial British filmmaker

SANCTUARY IN ABUNDANCE:

Gabby Laurent speaks to the artist Peter Miller about flea markets, cephalopods and artistic generosity

WELL TRAVELLED ISSUE:

TANK's Winter Travel Issue is out now!

London and Berlin-based artists Elmgreen & Dragset are storytellers and This is How We Bite Our Tongue at the Whitechapel Gallery is full of twisted narratives

looks that lead you up the garden path. Photography by Charlotte Krieger, styling by Marie Gibert

an essential reading list on the writer, filmmaker and gardener

a highlights reel from the intimate Parisian photo fair

a new exhibiton from Emma Strauss records everyday scenes along the 8000km train journey from St. Petersburg to Beijing

THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING:

Nathaniel Khan's new documentary is a witty cash up of the contradictory alliance between art and capitalism

THE WAY THINGS ARE:

a new video-installation from Karanjit Panesar tugs at the threads of neoliberal hegemony

read an extract from Uwe Johnson's multivolume opus detailing a year in the life of a holocaust survivor and her young daughter across 367 chapters

an AI satellite must confront its militarised origins and the cruelty of humans in this hyperreal parable from video-artist Lawrence Lek

Hannah Diamond's new PC Music single is a break up anthem for our era of fake emotions

the sprawling self-portraits of Shadi Al-Atallah convey the cathartic potential of an abundance of feeling

BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE:

Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn’s irreverent comedy is a goofy glaze-over and a smart critique of Western voyeurism

THE COUPLE FORM:

Prompted by the ‘Modern Couples’ show at the Barbican, TANK presents a reading list on our love-hate relationship with the figure of the couple

a 1960s inflatable stool reissued exclusively for Prada by Danish designer Verner Panton

the latest EP from Lisbon-based producer Bonaventure makes an urgent call to embrace the extraterrestrial

REVOLTING PROSTITUTES:

an extract from Juno Mac and Molly Smith’s new book from Verso on sex work, “shit jobs” and the demand to love what you do

IN CONVERSATION WITH HAMID ISMAILOV:

TANK speaks to the acclaimed Uzbek author about language, representation and Soviet reading habits

an online literary platform for writing on sexuality and erotics built to outlive the whirring cycles of content production

Antony Cairns uses e-readers and esoteric darkroom techniques to render desolate cityscapes alien and luminescent

Jenny Hval’s debut novel follows the unfurling of bodies in the wake of queer desire

listen to a lurid anthem from the Glaswegian darkpop band

THE EARTH DIES STREAMING:

A. S. Hamrah’s collected film criticism is a wry catalogue of our cinematic present

multidisciplinary artist Colin Self’s new LP is a glistening proposal for critical joy, interdependence and expanded forms of kinship

W HOTEL ISTANBUL:

behind the scenes on TANK's shoot with writer and journalist Suzy Hansen

a podcast and anti-algorithm media platform covering contemporary topics at the bleeding edge of art, politics and culture

BASTARD COUNTRYSIDE:

Robin Friend uncovers moments of intrigue in a sullen arcadia

the reality TV show that finds pleasure in the mundane

the newest TANK mix comes courtesy of Acoid, a Berlin-based producer and member of the Live From Earth collective

the unsettling photographs of Richard Mosse capture life at Europe’s borders

the work of abstract-expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart offer’s a more challenging perspective on a movement easily dismissed as boring or reactionary

IN CONVERSATION WITH AXIS MUNDI:

the brand studio responsible for a semiotic audit of TANK’s 20-year archive discuss the process

INHABITING - THE CITY AS A HOSTILE HOST:

Hicham Gardaf photographs the signs of human habitation on an inconspicuous street corner in North West London

read two poems from the new book from Ignota Press, which collects 21st century occult poetry to take us beyond the borders of the rational

SHIRLEY JACKSON:

This reading list provides an introduction to the eerie world of the novelist’s mystery stories, which are currently being re-evaluated and adapted for the screen

IN CONVERSATION WITH TAMSIN BLANCHARD

meet the fashion journalist and judge of this year’s TANK & Montblanc Fashion Writing Prize

SATIRE IN TRUMPWORLD:

Michael Roderick examines the videos Vic Berger, a viral video creator and humourist for the clickbait generation

POETRY OF THE FLOW:

in conversation with the Taiwanese artist Yahon Chang, whose Chinese ink paintings fuse ancient traditions with contemporary techniques

AGAINST IMMERSION:

on the New York Film Festival’s VR documentary program and the awkward state of this nascent form. By Jackson Arn

INDECENT EXPOSURE:

the irreverent filmmaker and provocateur John Waters receives his first retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art

the latest instalment in the TANK mix series comes courtesy of the producer Firaasbeats

DETROIT IN LONDON:

ahead of their rare joint appearance at London’s Printworks, Alex Solo selects some deep cuts from Detroit’s finest, Theo Parrish, Omar-S, Marcellus Pittman and Moodymann

Michael Vince Kim’s photographs reimagine a forgotten history of indentured servitude in Mexico and Cuba

THE BLACK IMAGE CORPORATION:

Fondazione Prada celebrates the legacy of Johnson Publishing Company, whose titles provided a cornerstone for African American identity

go backstage at a 70s Pink Floyd concert in this extract from the first English translation of Jean-Jacques Schuhl’s cult novel

THE MEDIUM IS A MESS:

TANK speaks with Jason Fulford, the American photographer who documented the Reggio Approach, a unique educational philosophy practised in Italy

French photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet’s latest series is an intoxicating visual love letter to Japan’s city streets

MERCA BAE INTERVIEW AND MIX:

our latest mix comes from the Spanish producer and DJ Merca Bae

IN THE COMPANY OF:

a new exhibition at TJ Boulting gallery places female voices of the past in dialogue with those of the present

IN CONVERSATION WITH R.O. KWON:

the author discusses her debut novel ‘The Incendiaries’, faith and the writing process

SUGAR DADDY CAPITALISM:

in an extract from his forthcoming book, Peter Fleming asks whether Sugar Daddy websites encourage prostitution without protection

NERVOUS STATES:

read an extract from William Davies’s latest book, which investigates the contemporary need to define ourselves by our feelings

DISPLACED DIASPORA:

a star of London’s resurgent jazz scene, Moses Boyd’s debut album is stylish and tenacious

THE WORLD TRANSFORMED:

TANK visits the alternative festival to the Labour Party conference, home of the left’s radical conscience

Eva Stenram dissects images from 1960s sports magazines with anatomical precision in her latest exhibition at Berlin’s Galerie aKonzept

PERIPHERAL VISION:

Fashion from the outskirts. Photography by Bloom Paris

WILLIAM DAVIES:

before we welcome William Davies to our latest Book Talk on October 18th, here is an essential reading list featuring some of his major books, alongside interviews, talks and more

CHELSEA MANNING:

the whistleblower, technologist and LGBTQ+ activist makes her first public appearance in the UK

SHIRIN ALIABADI (1973 – 2018):

TANK is saddened to learn of the death of Shirin Aliabadi, the artist who captured the rebellious dual identities of Iran’s women

a new exhibition at Auto Italia marks the first UK exhibition of the works of Gran Fury, the art collective who changed the face of queer activism

IN CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK DEWITT:

the Man-Booker shortlisted author discusses his latest novel ‘French Exit’, which offers a surreal take on the comedy of manners

clean lines sharp edges. Photography by Paolo Barbi, styling by Luca Balzarini and Andrea Volonté

photos from DIESEL WORM, a mobile exhibition held in three limousines at Roskilde Festival, are a breezy collection of freedom, posing and fun

SLOW FASHION TO SAVE MINDS:

the artist and founder of The Laundry Georgina Johnson’s latest venture draws together fashion, sustainability and mental health

THE SEVEN WORKS OF MERCY:

a closer look at Carravagio’s iconic work that inspired Hellen van Meene’s baroque reimagining of Gucci in the Epoch issue

BROTHERS AND OTHERS:

Alexander Coggin’s alternative holiday photographs capture the smaller dramas of the everyday

our latest TANK mix comes from a producer whose raw edits, which can disappear from Soundcloud at any moment, are outlandish and beautiful

FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL:

Josh Appignanesi’s “social surrealist” film follows the novelist Chloe Aridjis through the real-life contemporary art world

a performance and EP by Maria Fusco examines the skin condition, offering insight into irritation

the director Mu Tunç discusses his debut feature ‘Arada’ set in Istanbul’s 90s punk scene

IN CONVERSATION WITH CRAIG COHON:

we meet the chairman of Worn Again, the technology company whose pioneering recycling process looks to reshape the entire textile industry

the acclaimed producer Actress discusses his forthcoming release, an album co-authored by an AI learning programme

THE BALLAD OF ST JEROME:

the artist Jesse Darling revisits canonical Christian lore at Tate Britain

GYROVAGI TRAJECTORY:

nomadic monks and the natural world inspire the photographer Constantin Schlachter’s introspective series

WORK EXPERIENCE:

our latest fashion editorial is an ode to the intern. Photography by Sophie Tajan, styling by Gemma Bedini

SAFE AND SOUND:

Bang & Olufsen and Michael Anastassiades present ‘1/6000’, an interactive sound installation in an abandoned bank for London Design Festival

PALENCE INTERVIEW AND MIX:

the latest TANK mix comes from Palence whose melancholic productions draw from slowcore, IDM and hip hop

the Autumn Epoch issue is out now!

ALONE AT THE PARTY:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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INVASIVE SPECIES:

Egyptian poet Marwa Helal on her new book, the pressure to write about “local colour” and the highs and lows of writing workshops

AGAINST IMMERSION:

on the New York Film Festival’s VR documentary program and the awkward state of this nascent form. By Jackson Arn

BEHEADED BY iOS:

filter bubbles and the feminine touch in the photography of Josephine Pryde

this instalment of the TANK mix series comes courtesy of Swan Meat, offering a unique blend of baroque club music

a surprising reissue of the underground Spanish drug horror ‘Arrebato’ offers a chance to revisit a twisted tale of cinematic vampirism

FARSIGHT CORPORATION:

in a new project from architect-turned-artist Lawrence Lek at Bold Tendencies, a series of virtual-reality promotional videos grapple with the transformation of urban life by AI

NICOLAS ROEG (1928—2018):

Shumon Basar remembers the mercurial British filmmaker

REZA ABDOH AT MOMA PS1:

a rare retrospective of the late Iranian performer and artist

QANDEEL BALOCH:

how the death of a Pakistani social media star shook and changed a nation

fresh from the release of his second EP, ‘Sun, Sea and Sinini’, our latest mix is from London-based vocalist and producer Don Sinini

Urs Fischer’s sumptuously woozy silkscreen prints, made on his iPhone, call into question the effect of technology on memory

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 HEART OF THE RACE:

a powerful record of black women’s lives under the “triple burden” of race, gender and class in Britain has been republished by Verso

LEEDS POSTCARDS:

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

Helen Hester’s new book makes a bold proposal to repurpose network-technologies for feminist ends

RHYTHM AND COLOUR:

Richard Emerson charts the life, work and loves of three extraordinary women and forgotten members of the Lost Generation: Hélène Vanel, Loïs Hutton and Margaret Morris

has launched his his own label PC Music for bedroom professionals and slick amateurs. You can expect as much from this dreamy Radio Tank Mix, punctuated with internet buzzwords – “a fast connection, unlimited wifi”

watch the video premiere for ‘Seedling’

a selection of extracts from Sarah Manguso’s elegant, confessional ode to the art of diary writing, motherhood and time

lovers of iconic Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami can continue to see his finest films at the Close-Up Film Centre, which shares a name with his 1990 masterwork of docufiction

THE GEOLOGY OF RESISTANCE:

the music of Elysia Crampton reorientates the political potentials of dance music from the future to the ancient geological past. By Milo Gooder

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Fashion

photography by Roni Ahn, styling by Jo Heng

sameness and difference in earthy tones. Photography by Yuji Fukuhara, styling by Rumiko Koyama

THE SILENCE OF KIRSTEN OWEN:

From TANK’s archive. Photography by Dario Catellani, styling by Vittoria Cerciello, words by Naomi Bikis

subtle layers beneath a crisp sun. Photography by Pierre Lequeux, Styling by Carolina Augustin

looks that lead you up the garden path. Photography by Charlotte Krieger, styling by Marie Gibert

PERIPHERAL VISION:

Fashion from the outskirts. Photography by Bloom Paris

WORK EXPERIENCE:

our latest fashion editorial is an ode to the intern. Photography by Sophie Tajan, styling by Gemma Bedini

brave new frills, strange new folds. Fashion from the Bubbles issue

PLAYING THE FIELD:

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

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

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

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

MALTESE MEDITATIONS:

a woman walks alone in the Mediterranean archipelago. Photography by Stephanie Galea, styling by Sally Anne Bolton

“The sphere is the interior, disclosed, shared realm inhabited by humans”, says the philosopher Peter Slotterdijk. In this shoot from the archive, styles are inspired by the rich metaphorical world of bubbles

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

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

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

NEW FALL NOT YET BORN:

bleached tones and traces of sportswear carry through late echoes of summer. Photography by Marek Chorzepa, styling by Kat Ambroziak

SEINE STROLLING:

Chanel’s autumn 2018 haute couture collection is an elegant love letter to Paris

Olivier Saillard’s unique collection makes Madame Grès-inspired haute couture out of €5 T-shirts

the ties that bind, the bloodlines that hold. From the archive: photography by Estelle Hanania, styling by Benoît Bèthume

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

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

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TANK talks

“White people don’t encounter black people in Britain armed to the teeth with knives and guns.” Lubaina Himid is a Turner prize-winning artist

“Being a poet, words are often in your mind.” John Giorno is a poet and performance artist, and was a major feature of the New York underground scene of the 1960s

OLGA TOKARCZUK:

“Thinking for me means asking the right questions, paradoxical questions.” The Polish novelist discusses ‘Flights’, the novel that was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize

“It’s new in China to think of architecture as related to cultural identity” Yansong is a leading figure of a new generation of Chinese architects

ELYSIA CRAMPTON:

“Historically linear models conceal long and ancient channels of resistance.” Crampton’s densely allusive work is inflected by Andean tradition, critical theory and a legacy of trans resistance

LUCIANO BENETTON:

“Similarly, we came across an issue when featuring Algeria and Morocco, because they have populations of approximately 300,000 people living in exile in the desert”

GEORGE MONBIOT:

“Our task is not to change human nature; it’s to reveal human nature in all its wonderful colours” Monbiot is a writer, environmentalist and political activist

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH:

“I am interested in how we are both of those things: we are spiritual and we’re human poop machines.” Moshfegh’s lurid imagination and wry prose makes idiots of us all.

““It’s a blessing out of God’s hands. I’m pushing the standards.” An interview with hip-hop’s off-beat philosopher

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Podcast

PODCAST | A RADICAL HEART:

Fatima Bhutto joins TANK to discuss her latest book, The Runaways, which explores how modern alienation drives radicalisation

HERE AND NO ELSEWHERE:

the forces of today prefer a lesser, not greater, outdoors

PODCAST WITH OWEN HATHERLEY:

the writer and journalist discusses the complex legacy of the USSR 15 years after the end of history

are the days of human translators numbered, or will translation technology’s lack of linguistic nuance continue to be a flaw that’s impossible to ignore?

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOE KENNEDY:

writer and cultural theorist Joe Kennedy discusses his concept of "authentocracy" and the reactionary folksiness of British culture

SOMETHING MORE THAN SUPERFICIAL PERFECTION:

a reading by Tina, TANK's full time voiceover artist

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOEY ZWILLINGER:

the co-founder of the much buzzed about footwear startup Allbirds speaks to Caroline Issa about making the jump from biotech to fashion, building a mission-led business and embedding purpose into your product

IN CONVERSATION WITH LYNNE TILLMAN:

following her TANK Book Talk, the American author and critic discusses virulent masculinity and the process behind her latest novel, Men and Apparitions.

a reading from Tina, TANK'S full-time voiceover artist, excerpted from our latest Travel issue

IN CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK DEWITT:

the Man-Booker shortlisted author discusses his latest novel ‘French Exit’, which offers a surreal take on the comedy of manners

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

IN CONVERSATION WITH JAMES BRIDLE:

the artist and writer discusses his latest book, New Dark Age, which tackles how technology has led us into a world of ever-increasing incomprehension

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

IN CONVERSATION WITH MADELINE MILLER:

the Orange Prize-winning novelist reads from her latest book, Circe

ANTON VIDOKLE ON COSMISM:

the artist and filmmaker charts the unexpected revival of the Russian philosophy

IN CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL TRILLING:

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Ismail Einashe talks to the journalist and editor of New Humanist, Daniel Trilling

FLASH FICTION FROM NADIFA MOHAMED:

"The Maid" is a caustic story of abuse and inequality

RUSSIA IN THE LATE SUMMER:

the academic and children's author Katherine Rundell returns to the ever-changing beauty of St Petersburg

BOOKS AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL:

in conversation with Carl Williams

LIBERALISM AND IGNORANCE:

the philosopher Daniel DeNicola speaks to the author Edmund Fawcett.

MONSTERS AND OUTSIDERS:

In conversation with the author Charlie Fox

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