TANK MAGAZINE | The Aura Issue, Spring 2008 | Issue 43
fronting
- SECRET SIBLINGS: The mysterious duo behind Marsèll’s leathercraft
- WAR AND PEAS: tank.tv visits the Middle East
- SMART MOVE: a new home for the people behind Smart Car
- BIG BAND THEORY: the underground art of the large Hadron Collider
- AMERICAN GOTHIC: Mercedes Helwein’s debut
- ABOUT FACE: rejoice! Calvin Klein’s beauty range is back
- NIP TUCK: society is the spectacle at Art Basel Miami Beach
- THE HOUSE THAT JEAN BUILT: Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale settles on the bank of the Thames
- MUSSEL MAN: Simon Sterling examines the zebra mussel’s colonisation of Toronto
- RHINESTONE COWBOY: America’s personal museums of the bizarre
- PRESSING ISSUES: Alfredo Jaar on how Africa is covered in Western media
- BIGGER THAN THE BIBLE: Kate, Jerry and Naomi show that god things come in big packages
- QUEENS REIGN SUPREME: M.I.A. passes the baton to Philly’s pop princess, Santogold
- LABYRINTHS: Dirty Projector’s rework Black Flag’s Damaged from memory
- ROLL UP: from Guantanamo to Eno, Riz Ahmed tears up the stage
- CUFFS AND COLLARS: Fuck Buttons blast their nihilistic beat way pat 11
- DOWN WITH THE DEATH SET: Joe And Will Ask? Gets sucked in by east London electricity
- OVER THE RAINBOW: Black Kids follow the yellow brick road to pop success
features
- SEXYTIME: Pleasureboy musician Sebastien Tellier and his muse
- FIND THE GAP: Wolfgang Tillmans studio space salutes forgotten greats
- FUNNY GAMES: a riddle for Yayoi Kusama by Terence Koh
- GRAND MASTER: visionary polymath Alejandro Jodorowsky – filmmaker, mystic, magician and high priest of the surreal
- GRILS ON FILM: Anne Collier’s revealing re-photographs
- BELLY OF THE BEAST: inside the UN
- BLOCK OF THE NEW: sanaa’s new museum brightens the bowery
- HEDGE FUND: Valerie Stahl’s bankers in the forest
- MEET MARKET: Shamim Momin on her female-focused Whitney Biennial
- GYPSY KINGS: Frida Gianni welcomes us aboard the Gucci Bordello
- PRINCE AND THE NEW POWER GENERATION: photography by Dirk Seiden Schwan, styling by Chloe Kerman
- LIVE AND WET GUY: photography by Pierre Bjork, styling by Richard Pierce
- REFLECTIVE GLORY: by Georgina Graham, photography by David Dunan
- WHITE NIGHTS: photography by Dirk Seiden Schwan, fashion editor Azza Yousif
- DOORS OF PERCEPTION: by Chloe Kerman, photography by Jamie Isaia
- LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON: by Jo Barker, photography by Bruna Kazinoti
