Architect Nigel Coates’ latest project sees him combine forces with Architectural Association students to breathe new life into a lonely, polluted corner of Venice. Thomas Roueché discusses.
Zines are defined by their hyperfocus, personality, and refusal to conform to the publishing institutions. Not sure where to begin? Listen to our guide to the zine and what it means.
A dazzling exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals Cartier's proud heritage of unmatched craftsmanship and its unrivalled clientele. Olivia Barrett is seduced by a resplendent amethyst brooch, gifted by Jacques Cartier to his wife.
Quinn Slobodian’s newest book, Hayek’s Bastards, tracks the movement of 20th Century neoliberalism into the far-right populism of the modern day. He speaks to Kojo Koram on the book for this week's TANK Podcast.
In this week's podcast, Jeremy Atherton Lin reads from “Deep House”, his tender and charged memoir on sex, housing precarity and the strange history of American gay rights legislation.
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes abandons all realism in his new film Grand Tour, a thrilling exploration of puppetry, anachronism, and the colonial subject, one that won him Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. TANK's assistant editor Matteo Pini spoke to Gomes on the unconventional production of the film.
The publishing industry appears in rom-coms at a truly unlikely frequency. Matteo Pini explores how the rom-com – from You’ve Got Mail to The Proposal – reveals an industry formed by desire as much as the market.
Across five decades of work, the poet CAConrad has gained renown as “the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry”. Here, they are joined by artist-filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, for a reading and discussion that took place at TANK GPS in early 2025.
Writers Abdulrazak Gurnah and Nadifa Mohamed discuss democratic backsliding and Zanzibar history over lunch at Clipstone restaurant. Read the full conversation in the Summer 2025 issue of TANK.
Multidisciplinary artist Sophia Al Maria discusses her post-individual artmaking practice and her surprise career in music.
6a architects director Owen Watson discusses his firm's philosophy, which emphasises transparency, sustainability, and the use of available materials.
Artistic director of Frieze London discusses curation, embodiment and how she keeps the capital's most famous art fair dynamic.
Has the UK got a productivity problem? Clinging to the past and reluctant to assess the future, the failure of the British political class to get it done is as evident in the stalling HS2 project as it is in the official census. Masoud Golsorkhi addresses the problem head-on.
Shumon Basar considers Lady Gaga, artifice and the beautiful frontiers of capitalism in this piece, taken from the TANK archive.
Matteo Pini discusses alchemy, cabinets of curiosity, and the 155-year heritage of Penhaligon’s perfume.
Ahead of the opening of “Hamad Butt: Apprehensions” at Whitechapel Gallery on 4th June, Thomas Roueché considers toxicity and sublimity within the late artist's work.
In Milan, a literary club hosted by Miu Miu considers embodiment and gendered experience through novels by Fumiko Enchi and Simone de Beauvoir. Nell Whittaker reports.
In this week's TANK Podcast, taken from the archives, artist Hannah Black considers the racialised and gendered implications of gossip across history.
Property shapes our lives and dreams – which take place within and outside the permanent state of urgency, scarcity, disenfranchisement and desire called the “global housing crisis”. For TANK, Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Aurelia Guo discuss the personal and political dimensions of housing.
In this week's TANK Podcast, taken from the TANK archive, Stewart Jeffries considers Oliviero Toscani’s subversive advertising campaigns for Benetton in the 1980s and 1990s, both commended and condemned for their provocative depictions of an aspirationally globalised world. As much as his work clashed with cultural realities, Toscani's images remain a rich historical source to trace our divergence from this once progressive, utopian vision.