TANK MAGAZINE | Theaster Gates Issue | Issue 96 | BUY THIS ISSUE
fronting
- EDITOR'S LETTER: Conflabulation Inc. By Masoud Golsorkhi
- MANIFESTO: 25 years of fashion swerves
- SEEING RED: baring the sole with Louboutin
- CINQUE SORELLE: becoming reflective with the five sisters of Rome
- NICHOLAS DALEY’S WOVEN RHYTHMS: photography by Piczo, styling by Nicholas Daley
- GUCCI COSMOS: photography by Sofia Alazraki
- A CHANGE OF SEASONS: De Beers for every climate
- A SENSE OF CRAFT: doing it yourself with Manolo Blahnik
- A COMMON THREAD: nine designers unravel the influence of Gabrielle Chanel
- CHANEL BEAUTY: Corinne Bailey Rae on her kaleidoscopic new album. Photography by Marsy Hild, make-up by Kay Montano
- TABI-SABI: the split-toe boot takes to the rink. Photography by Chris Strong, text by Theaster Gates
features
- SUN RA: EMPEROR OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: text by John Corbett, illustration by Carles Garcia O'Dowd
- MOTHER MARY AND THE IMMACULATE ANGLE. By Honey Crawford
- AFRO-MINGEI: A conversation between Theaster Gates, Yuko Kikuchi and Hiroki Yamamoto
- KENTE, MINGEI AND THE ART OF BELIEF: By Paul C. Taylor
- SOUND ADVICE. By Joseph Zeal-Henry
- DORCHESTER INDUSTRIES: Claudia Steinberg and Mitch Zachary meet the participants
- THREE STRIKES: WE IN: An account of the labour movement of the American TV and film industry from 2023-2033. By Terence Nance
- OF GODS AND MONSTERS: Arthur Jafa interviewed by Theaster Gates
- GLAZED GLITTER: VESSELS BY THEASTER GATES: By Claudia Rankine
- GIVENCHY: Benjamin Clementine on art and distance
fashion
- IN TOKONAME: getting fired up in Theaster Gates’s Japanese studio-workshop. Photography by Yuichiro Noda, styling by Shotaro Yamaguchi
- PETROL HEAD: pedal to the metal. Photography by Jacq Harriet, styling by Britt Layton Baptista
- COUVERTURE: meet your biggest fan. Photography by Hubert Crabières, styling by Alicia Padrón
- HOLEY SPIRITS: ragged saints. Photography by Daniel Clavero, styling by Alicia Padrón.
- HOUSE OF FUN: cardboard cohabitation. Photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Liu Xiao.
- IN MOTION: photography by Guy Bolongaro, styling by Simone Konu-Rae
talks
- SOLANGE KNOWLES: “I began to think about how much of a sacrifice it is to entertain”
- GLENN LIGON: “I've always been a bit sceptical about language's ability to communicate”
- LINDA JOHNSON RICE: ”Black people have values and are to be valued”
- ISAAC JULIEN: “What is in that archive is going to be our future”
- LI LIN: “You are always starting from nothing”
- DARREN WALKER: “I am unapologetically a believer that beautiful things help lift us up”
- HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: “My idea is to die with a cash balance of zero”
- ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: “Precision of expression and thought is a very useful tool in the broader work of social justice”
- HONEY DIJON: “No love is unconditional”
