Tank, Vol. 11, #6
230 x 300 mm, 288 pages (plus sticker sheet)
London, UK
Published since 1988
Editor-in-chief: Masoud Golsorkhi
Creative director: Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
Senior designer: Weronika Uyar
‘On Track. Since 1998.’
As Wikipedia dutifully points out, this publication is ‘not to be confused with Tank, the magazine of the Royal Tank Regiment.’ If it’s contemporary culture, fashion, art, architecture, technology and politics you’re looking for, this would be the version to go for. Tank has taken many forms and continues to carve a distinctive niche in a crowded genre, with its selective themes and intelligent writing. Typically sticker-friendly, recent issues have been uncharacteristically unstickered (not including the logo, which has indeed been manually stuck on) but with a sheet of stickers ready to be applied.
The self-proclaimed ‘heavy duty culture’ magazine returns with its annual winter ‘Travel Issue’—once again positioning itself at the forefront of global current affairs and culture. Ever the astute cultural commentator, editor-in-chief Masoud Golsorkhi introduces the issue, this time turning his attention to goings on across the pond—from the election of Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim New Yorker who ‘had the audacity of winning by delivering policies, not vibes’, to Lily Allen’s now infamous tell-all break up album. Inside, you’ll find features on Panama’s ‘most extravagantly wild’ archipelago; a trio of exhibitions from Berlin Art Week, confronting the troubles of our times; and, a new installation by Lithuanian artist Gabija Grušaite, serving as a facsimile of present-day Vilnius, where pop iconography is preserved alongside post-Soviet relics; plus, conversations with the likes of Maggie Nelson, Ruby Tandoh, Sumayya Vally, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Jake Romm and Jeremy King.
On the Journal
At work with Masoud Golsorkhi: ‘I am not sure if we are academically rigorous. We don’t aim to be academic, we mean to approach fashion as a serious topic in and amongst other serious and interesting ideas. I guess the form of address implies a reader of a certain discernment, education and intellectual aspiration.’
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