TANK MAGAZINE | Park and Ride | Issue 29
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Tank
- MARAUDING MARRAS: photography by Vincente de Paulo
- BETWEEN MELONS AND A HARD PLACE: the deranged tyranny of Turkmenistan
- BUILDING DROWNING THINKING: every two years the world’s flashiest architecture exhibition lads in Venice, city of water and decay
- STARS IN YOUR EYES: coke is common, glamour is rentable. is nothing sacred? Tom Morton on the fall of fame and the rise of the everyday, everyman, everywoman, everywhere rock star
- BLOCK HEAD: photography by Bryony White
- FUTURE FLAT PLAN: photography by Ben Dunbar
- THE PLACE PRIZE: photography and styling by Sean + Seng
- THE UNQUIET AMERICAN: a conversation with Noam Chomsky by Markus Miessen
- MAN OF MYSTERY: Tank talks to Martin Margiela, sort of
- GREASED LIGHTENING: Paul Fryer and the electrifying world of Deepsky radio
- THIS IS ITT: photography by Masoud
- BANNED: Daryoush Haj-Najafi in conversation with Selfish Cunt
- REAL DIAMOND GEEZER: photography by James Mountford
- ART HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET: a West German goes East – Gregor Schneider’s plans for doing up his houses in the East End
- PLANE CLOTHES fast times for slow fashion – Henrik Vibskov talks frogs, Pipers and monks with Xerxes Cook
- SWASH BUCKLING: by Jamie Ellis, photography by Valerie Stahl
- BLAZING SADDLES: the house of Hermès
- SHOPOLOGY: backgammon to the future – how the Hussein Chalayan store is upping the ante in Tokyo
- HIP HOP SLIPPER FACES: the Tottenham exoticism of Wing Lei Lok
- FOXY: the man who borrowed sportswear from the sports people and put it on the street – Simon Foxton, Stylist, and proud of it
- THE PRINCIPALITY OF EVERYTHING: why the free world is an old fortress six miles off England, and other questions
- MONUMENT TO NOW: when public goes private, it’s the art world that benefits. inside the private collection of Dakis Joannou
- UNIVERSITY OF BULLET: Liberia used to be the Dubai of West Africa. it had American Accents, a stars and stripes flag, peace and mostly happiness. but that was then
features
- WHO IS HELMUT: the enigma that is Helmut Lang talks to Camilla Morton
- IRON KEITH: Kiwi fruits and genetic surprises – Niru Ratnam investigates the perpetual artistic curiosity of Keith Tyson
- NEW POLISH OLD BOOTS: Motherfucking day off. Maciej Ceglowski has a day out with Poland’s finest
- TOP CAT: photography by Xevi Muntane
- FAN MALE: Daryoush Haj-Najafi and Xerxes Cook ask Kim Jones fans what they want to know about Kim Jones
- AIR PRECIOUS: photography by Kate Plumb
- WRIGHT ON FASHION: Eric Wright is Karl Lagerfeld’s trusted lieutenant at Fendi and widely renowned as one of the wisest heads in fashion. that much we know. but who is he and where did he come from
- NO SHORT STORY: oma’s new Seattle Public Library is an anti-monument to the last uncontested moral universe
- TALL STORIES: our enduring fascination with skyscrapers
- FRIEZE STAND AND DELIVER: what do you think this is about? the art fair moves from the obscure to the accessible. shocking stuff
- RUN CONDI RUN: If Margaret Thatcher is iron, Condoleezza Rice, Bush’s National Security Advisor, is titanium. David Katz takes a close look at the phenomenon that is Condi
- LET’S MEET: between 1999 and 2003, photographer Paul Shambroom spent a lot of time in town council meetings across the US
- WILD WILD WEB: Dutchmen poo, mountains are paranoid. it all makes sense to Gary Webb
- LIGHT AND BULK: bearable lightness, the architecture of Herzog & De Meuron
- STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW: art by Claire Harvey
- MADAM SONIA AND THE LITTLE INDIAN: how an Italian English-language student nearly came to rule the world’s biggest democracy. Palash Krishna Mehrotra on Sonia Gandhi
- THIS IS RADIO TANK: Tank’s first musical gift is the result of a collaboration with London DJ The Lovely Jonjo. together, we trawled Europe and North America for bands who sing about household mess, everything being holy and the end of teutonic relationships. they also sound quite good
- COPYWRONG COPYRIGHT: you wrote it; they own it. Stuart Turnbull looks at how Queen Mary started what the music moguls are desperately keen to continue
- RIDICULOUS SUBLIME: oyez oyez. listen up – Charles Avery draws on the tradition of manifestos to draw his own
- WHO NEEDS A HERO: Hero is spectacular In its faultless execution, enormous budget and director Zhang Yimou’s disappointing capitulation to establishment China. Tom Ridgway on the changing face of a Chinese legend
- NEW YORK: it’s there if you look. Camilla Morton on the untapped treasures of New York fashion week
- LONDON: youth and fearlessness. Camilla Morton experiments in fashion’s laboratory
- MILAN: Angelo Flaccavento and Gianluca Cantaro on frills, thrills and frocks
- PARIS: Marie Antoinette and me. Camilla Morton in Paris
- EN PLUME: photography by Jason Hetherington
- WE DO VOODOO: photography and styling by Sean + Seng
- MASTERS OF RECONSTRUCTION: photography by Masoud
- EXGOTHIKA: photography by Stefano Galuzzi
- FLASH FICTION: 10 short stories, written exclusively for Tank
