TANK MAGAZINE | The Gossip Issue, Spring 2017 | Issue 70
front
features
- ALTERNATIVE FACTS: gossip has always been endemic to the workplace. As a cartoon boss takes the presidency truth goes out of the window. By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- BECKY WITH THE GOOD HAIR: gossip is more than idle chitter-chatter. Clare Birchall interrogates its power to disrupt traditional systems of knowledge
- IMPOTENT VIRILITY: evolutionary biology and the role of gossip in Larry Clark’s unsettling film, Bully. By Charles Mudede
- A COMMON EAR: how an archaeology of gossip can liberate the ways we understand history, opening up new horizons of queer possibility. By Edward Siddons
- RADIO TANK: mature poets steal. Progress and plagiarism in the story of sampling. Art by José Luis Pescador, words by Yohann Koshy
- GLOBALISATION'S CRISIS: the fundamental reasons behind our contemporary political catastrophe are more complex than they first appear. By Nesrine Malik
- EROTIC EXPOSURE: social media makes every secret an open one. Have we forfeited the right to a double life? By Jesse Barron
- WITCH-HUNT: gossip has always been a secret language of friendship and resistance between women. By Hannah Black
- THE NOVEL IN THE AGE OF GAWKER: the vicious impulses of literature in the internet age. By Geoff Shullenberger
- BASED ON A TRUE STORY: the veteran crime writer Duncan Campbell unpicks the hazy realities and bizarre fantasies that are hidden in crime fiction
- SOMETHING TO GOSSIP ABOUT: shared intimacy and friendship in the work of Juliette Blightman, invited by Christabel Stewart
- FLASH FICTION: The Situation Room by John Keene
fashion
- REVOLUTION REVISITED: Alessandro Michele’s reconceptualisation of Gucci continues to expound a new and insurgent baroque, captured by the heightened realism of Sarah Dobai’s photography
- THE BIG BLUE: an investigation into the reinvention of the world’s most iconic textile. Words by Tamsin Blanchard, photography by Joyce Ng, styling by Ib Kamara
- RITE OF SPRING: an elegy in poise and glamour. Photography by Joanna Piotrowska, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK: lost in aimless isolation. Photography by June Canedo, styling by Tess Herbert
- REAL ESTATE: casual approaches to formal menswear. Photography by Olgaç Bozalp, styling by Bobby Hook
- CHEW THIS OVER: urban footwear for all that the city can throw at you. Photography by Joanna McClure, styling by Haidee Findlay-Levin
- THE LINE OF BEAUTY: Armani’s modern take on tailored classics. Photography by Sofie Middernacht and Maarten Alexander, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- THE LIVES OF OTHERS: private eyes and the public gaze. Photography by Estelle Hanania, styling by Benoît Béthume§
- HERLAND: as Maria Grazia Chiuri’s new vision of Dior proposes a radical departure for the house, the award-winning video artist Laure Prouvost propounds an heroic femininity
- A WORD IN YOUR SHELL-LIKE:
talk
- KELLY REICHARDT: “When you drive west, suddenly the sky takes over – it’s a great opening up”
- OMER FAST: “I’m not an artist who is extremely visual; I mistrust the image and so tend to think in words”
- MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH: “I am one of the world’s inveterate gossips. I like the confetti of information, you know?”
- GLENN GREENWALD: “When you realise the extent of surveillance is so extreme, so consuming, there’s a part of your brain that resists believing that it is real”
- ASHISH GUPTA: “There’s such diverse culture here that I’ve never felt like I wasn’t at home”
- EMILY WITT: “Well, the practice of orgasmic meditation is not supposed to help you become more detached from your feelings; it’s actually the opposite”
- EZRA RUBIN: “I want to bring in those moments that are slightly too emotional for the club”
- ARNE SVENSON: “I wanted those photos to be about quietude. I never anticipated that it would become about privacy”
- REBECCA TOMAN: “Publications that violate the privacy of individuals are playing an increasingly risky game”
- WILL REBEIN: “The period around 2007 was a defining moment, people didn’t really grasp the gravity of how the internet was changing celebrity gossip culture”
- MIRROR, MIRROR: Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra
