TANK MAGAZINE | The Sweet Sobriety Issue, Spring 2006 | Issue 35 | BUY THIS ISSUE
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Tank
- BURFITT’S FINE LINES: meet Swedish fashion designer and illustrator Louisa Burfitt
- PIMP MY RIDE: Liz Cohen takes a torch to the macho world of lowriding
- THE M/M SHOW: London welcomes Paris’ most fashionable design duo
- DOES MY BLOB LOOK BIG IN THIS: serious shoppers need only scan once
- A SURREAL SCANDAL: the “Matta Affair” split the surrealist movement in two. a new exhibition recounts architect Frederick Kiesler’s roll in the fallout
- BUTTON UP: cardigans are making a comeback
- TOKYO STORIES: Antoine Kruk’s illustrations reveal the soul of the capital of Japanese consumerism
- SOME DAY MY PRINTS WILL COME: photography by Yu-kuang, styling by Belinda Reynolds
- POETRY IN MOTION: Jun Ichikawa’s Toni Takitani brings Murakami to the big screen – brilliantly
- SCENT’S NEW SENSIBILITY: Chanel, home of the classic fragrance, smells a change of mood
- WAR AND PEACE: the trauma of past in tessellated form
- DO THE RUFFLE: photography by Veronique Rolland, styling by Chloe Kerman
- MY AIMEE IS TRUE: emerging designer Aimee McWilliams has set her sights on success
- RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN: radical writer Kathy Acker is remembered in a new book
- BLACK IS BACK AND WHITE IS RIGHT: photography by Matt Hind, styling by Richard Pierce
- CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER: the Bernadette Corporation’s low-budget, slasher movie, body-part conceptual art visits the Whitney Biennale
- I LOVES YOU CYBORGY: New Zeland’s new robo-rocking fashion star Mala Brajkovic
- WHITE OUT: photography by Christoph Stieber, styling by Chloe Kerman
- LACE OF HEARTS: photography by the Two, styling by Chloe Kerman
- CULTURAL BAGGAGE: Vanessa Beecroft is on brand at Louis Vuitton’s new Paris space
- THE KNEE GENERATION: photography by David Oxberry, styling by Richard Pierce
- SHOW AND CELL: Tank.tv hears – and films – your confessions
- JURASSIC DARK: the monster that proves a lack of light can illuminate the mind
- SKIN I’M IN: photography by Christoph Stieber, styling by Chloe Kerman
- HERE’S ONE THEY MADE EARLIER: why much of this year’s Berlin Biennale actually happened last year – and why you should still go
- SPECS APPEAL: Tom Ford makes four eyes better than two
- HIDE AND CHIC: leather has been granted a new lease of life
- BUFFED UP: photography by Matt Hind, styling by Richard Pierce
- CLICK OF THE BUNCH: a New York exhibition highlights African photography’s newest talents
- GIRLS IN THE HOOD: photography by Jon Baker, styling by Chloe Kerman
- BROUGHT TO BOOK: Beck’s Futures nominee Simon Popper makes new art out of James Joyce’s great novel
- SLAPPY RAPPING: meet party-hearty Baltimore hip-hop crew Spank Rock
- SIBLING REVELRY: whether as filmmakers, troublemakers or tap dancers, the Niestat Brothers champion the message that everyone has the tools to create
- GARETH PUGH: the woman from American Vogue says yes
- ROCK OF SAGES: Riffs, reflection, self-depreciation – Art Brut’s bold bid to be the thinking person’s rock group
- NEON FROM NOW ON: photography by Elise Dumontet, styling by Chloe Kerman
- PALE RIDERS: photography by Matt Hind, styling by Richard Pierce
features
- GODS AND MONSTERS: why Charlie White’s all-American art has moved from movie monsters to ancient myth
- MAID IN FRANCE: fashion finally found out what the butler saw
- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS PERFORMER: Jonathan Meese in four short acts
- THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY: it was expected to usher in the new era of great nights, bright lights and cultural cachet for Beirut. but 2005 turned out to be the year the bombs and bad old days returned
- HIT THE DECK: photography by Simon Harris, styling by David Vivirido
- TATE TRIENNIAL PREVIEW: four artists and a theme of “theatrical appropriations” from star curator Beatrix Ruf
- EL DIEGO DIOS: how Maradona is reinventing himself as Argentina’s saviour
- GRAIN OR SHINE: super-gloss vs super-natural in the season’s key texture clash. photography by Kate Plumb
- THE PRICE OF DRUGS: how do you measure the cost of a substance-dependent existence
- HOW TO BUILD A 21ST CENTURY CITY: what are the lessons to be learned from Dubai’s new world, and how will the future of urban living be shaped by them
- THE MISSING: after 30 years of war, and the 2004 tsunami, many women in Aceh have been left widowed. what will peacetime, and the increasing imposition of Islamic law, mean for their futures
- THE ICE MAN COMETH: jewellery for guys grows up and gets its groove back
- THE SOCIETY OF THE AND: architectural theorist Roemer van Toorn’s words-and-pictures manifesto on the hidden order of our chaotic world
- YOUR CHEATIN’ ART: why R Kelly’s revolutionary 45-minute soap-opera pop song might be the most important artwork of the millennium
- SCULPTING IN TIME: the polaroid poetry of great Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky
- BED HEAD: photography by Thiemo Sander, hair by Nicolas Jurnjack at B agency
- FLESH N WILD: photography by Masoud Golsorkhi, styling by Chloe Kerman
- WIFE ON MARS: photography by Stefano Galuzzi, styling by Spela Lenarcic
- ROCK STEADY: photography by Danilo Giulani, styling by Jo Barker
- FLASH FICTION: 10 short stories, written exclusively for Tank
