TANK MAGAZINE | The American Beauty Issue, Winter 2009 | Issue 46
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- TRADING PLACES: Armando Andrade Tuleda and the art of changing cultures
- GREAT PERFORATIONS: the hole-punched photos that tell lost stories from the depression
- AUSTIN FLOWERS: teens blossom and grow in Lise Safarti’s Texan identity parade
- EASTERN PROMISE: the Guggenheim shows how the West has always looked east
- THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD: raw emotion keeps Ballast afloat
- PAPER VIEW: Arts & Architecture: the magazine that changed built America
- ORIGINAL FINN: Eero Saarinen’s unique and influential architecture
- FOUR WHEELS BAD: Jeremy Deller and the culture of car bombs
- AD INFINITUM: Thomas Wrede’s leering billboards frame a city
- MAN OF IRON: Mike Tyson, existential hero
- DETROITUS: Pablo Power’s crumbling America
- CULTURES LAST STAND: artists, zombies and Hindu gods are all invited to Shezad Dawood’s all-American hoedown
- JENGA OR KER PLUNK: in new times of less, 56 Leonard is more Manhattan of yore
- BEIJING MON AMOUR: China greets Christian Dior with inspired art
- IT’S MY PARTY: Tank celebrates 10 years
features
- TELEPATHE: Brooklyn magpies on networking and turning American
- GRAFFITI ISLAND: daft punks unite as London plays catch-up
- ARCH M: beach boy shakes his bootsy
- HIGH PLACES: chilly city dwellers sing the praises of the weirdo wave
- STEVE REID AND KIERAN HEBDEN: age gap not an issue as opposites attract
- BARACK X: the known unknowns of the age of Obama
- MAN ON: Carter and James Franco redefine performance and rewrite the past, slowly
- THE PRESIDENT’S MAN: how endorsement-phobic rocker Bruce Springsteen became Obama’s cheerleader-in-chief
- NEW ORLEANS NOW: three years and three months after Hurricane Katrina left it devastated, New Orleans and its artists are learning how to put themselves back together
- NINE CANDLES IN BABYLON: The World Series Philadelphia had to win
- WE THE UNDESIGNED: sometimes architecture is more complicated than building pretty things. Two of the curators from Venice Biennial’s US Pavilion showcase the new wave of American architect-activist
- YOUNG AMERICANS: photography by Chadwick Tyler, styling by Nicole Vitagliano
- CHROMA: photography by Jeffrey Cohen, styling by Chloe Kerman
- AU REVOIR SIMONE: Jamie Isaia inspired by Swarovski
- PERSONA PHOTOGRAPHY: photography by Adrian Gaut, styling by Akari Endo-Gaut
- AMERICAN BEAUTY: photography by Todd Cole, styling by Cher Coulter
talk
- NICOLAI OUROUSOFF: “Anyone involved in the world of architecture is secretly an optimist”
- EMMANUEL GILBERT: “A drawing, as simple as it may be, it looks like a memory”
- BURKE ROBERTS: “Fuck all that tipping point theory and passion through adversity shit”
- MARVIN TRAUB: “Shopping, even for busy people, is a pastime that people can and should enjoy”
- PARAG KHANNA: “Globalisation is the weapon empires use to pursue their geopolitical objectives”
- SHEPARD FAIREY: “The whole concept of working against the system is predicated on the system being bad”
- GARY YOUNGE: “Black Americans represent a kind of imaginative quality in America”
- QUINTRON: “It is the exhausted state of sobriety that I cherish more than any state in the world”
- HAMPTON FANCHER: “It’s got the stupidity of Americans. That’s all it’s got”
