TANK MAGAZINE | The Platinum Edition Issue, Spring 2010 | Issue 49
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- POCKET THEATRE: Aurélien Froment exhibits his art films on tank.tv
- THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: fear and loathing in Los Angeles
- BIRDSONG AND MACHINE SOUNDS: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot brings an avian orchestra to the Barbican
- THE GOOD SAMARITAN: A new book by artist/architect Céline Condorelli is very supportive indeed
- INVISIBLE CITIES: Claude Parent dreams up sci-fi utopias in the City of Light
- BACK TO THE FUTURE: Duncan Campbell tells the story of John DeLorean
- Michael Van Der Ham: the Dutch designer channels the spirit of Andy Warhol
- WORD WAR: a group show examines the strange and unhappy meeting of media and conflict
- STARING AT THE SUN: Brighton-based duo Semiconductor comes back to Earth with Heliocentric
- CIRCLES OF LIFE: Tris Vonna-Michell tells stories by the sea
- BLOUSON NOIR: stylist-turned-designer Melanie Ward releases her debut collection
- SILVER LINING: Bulgari and Save the Children join forces for children’s education
- TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS: the smart pavilion brings London to Frankfurt
- A NEVERENDING STORY: Carven comes back into fashion
- DISSONANT SONGS AND UNSETTLING STORIES: Laure Prouvost changes the channel at Tate Britain
- FIX UP, LOOK SHARP: the return of exciting millinery
- OH BOY: at last, a full day of menswear at London Fashion Week
- ESBEN AND THE WITCH: Ride the ghost train of the human psyche with Brighton's Spookiest troubadours
- GIGGS: the hollowman of Peckham resurrects UK rap
- COOLY G: South London's finest producer, promoter, mother, teacher and striker
- SALEM: darkness and light from middle america
- THESE NEW PURITANS: strange fictions and orchestral flourishes from the forward-thinking seaside quartet
- THE SMITH WESTERNS: saving rock music with nostalgia and romance
features
- OFF THE RAILS: the best of the season’s collections, shot at Maria Luisa, Paris
- THE WARHOL SHOW: the inescapable legacy of Pop art’s leading light
- EPIPHANY: Miuccia Prada and Hans Ulrich on freedom, experimentation and the diverse artistic activities of the Fondazione Prada
- NINE BLOND IMAGES: leaving aside the iconic, Tank takes a meander through boldness in art
- FLASH FICTION: short, short stories in 300 words or less
- BLEACH: the story of hydrogen peroxide
- ENDLESS SURFACE: Lady Gaga and the beautiful frontiers of capitalism
- BLONDE FAITH: the rest of the world sees green, but Shirin Aliabadi prefers to explore the yellow and blue hues of rebellion
- BUILDING LOVE: contemporary architecture and desire
- SHOW AND TELL: how the online revolution is democratising fashion
- ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: the challenges facing British fashion
- TOY STORY: photography by Nobuyoshi Araki, styling by Msae Takanaka
- GOING PLATINUM: photography by Christian Anwander, styling by Chloe Kerman
- MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL: photography by Satoshi Saïkusa, styling by Yasmine Eslami
talk
- MARIA BEATTY: “So it’s the madness within and the madness without, and both reflect each other”
- HUGH HEFNER: “There's a whole second, post-feminist generation of women who now embrace the Playboy rabbit”
- MAX SCHAEFER: “There's a long tradition, in British queer culture at least, of fetishising working-class masculinity”
- DUNCAN WARD AND MOLLIE DENT-BROCKLEHURST: “The art world is very straightforward: an object, a sum of money and a transaction”
- JOS VAN TILBURG: “Our company is like an ant colony”
- JAMES BRETT: “Intellect is second to emotion when it comes to art”
- ALISON GINGERAS: “When it comes to hair colour, veracity absolutely does not matter”
- ATOM EGOYAN: “We dream in conventional film language”
- NICK FLYNN: “We’re all trying to enter into our bodies”
- JOE SACCO: “We’ve begun to get used to new plateaux of violence”
