In the first of a trio of readings for TANK, Rosie Stockton reads “Dear End” from their collection Fuel, a collection that describes the overlapping and co-inciting modes of capital, extraction, fantasy, loss, gender, and labour. In this spirit, Rosie reads in front of the assembled posters from Paris’s May ’68 uprisings.

“Like cupid I can only shoot / one arrow at a time / but I’m practising, comrade”. Rosie Stockton reads from their long poem “Carmen et Error”, from Fuel.

Rosie Stockton reads from their long poem “Carmen et Error”, from Fuel, a collection that traces how “underneath the petty vengeances and idle whimsies that Ovid tracked as metamorphosis, even deeper kinds of transformation lurk” (Chris Nealon). 

On September 13, a multicoloured “migrating memorial” of ma’amoul – semolina-based cookies popular in Lebanon – will spill into the Victoria & Albert Museum. Artist Ramzi Mallat’s installation Not Your Martyr commemorates five years since the chemical explosion in Beirut, in the form of colourful glass biscuits that remember both the shattering and the coming together.

In the second episode of our original series My Dinner with Sumayya, shot on location at Mayfair’s Park Chinois, the acclaimed architect Sumayya Vally sits down with Pakistani-American singer and songwriter Ali Sethi. This month, Ali released his debut solo album, Love Language, and he and Sumayya discussed the album’s hybrid, exuberant sensibility, the experiential nature of art, resistance to categorisation, and the importance of infinity. 

In the first episode of a new, original series My Dinner with Sumayya, the acclaimed architect Sumayya Vally sits down for an intimate, searing conversation with sound artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan. The series, inspired by the cult 1981 film My Dinner with Andre, is formed of far-ranging conversations between Sumayya and those whose work shapes our world: architects, musicians, artists and more, all shot on location at Mayfair’s beautiful Park Chinois restaurant. Lawrence is the founder of Earshot, the world's first not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the study of sound – with Sumayya, he discusses Earshot’s work reconstructing Saydnara prison from testimony of what prisoners heard, and more recently, corroborating the call from Hind Rajab from inside a bullet-punctured car. 

Welcome to Reading light in the more than human world, a discussion between radical shamanic poet CAConrad and artist-filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman at TANK GPS. Join us for an evening of readings, a screening, and much rich conversation.

British realist cinema tends to be synonymous with the kitchen sink drama of the 1960s, but this season of Now Showing sets out to broaden the scope. We’re showcasing a series of realist classics from these islands that don’t feature domestic arguments set in Northern kitchens but which interrogate the nature of representation itself. From the quiet serenity of turn-of-the-century Wales to the Technicolour vibrancy of the Swinging Sixties, these films examine how British filmmakers have used the medium to explore identity, class, race and gender; not just documenting the world as it is, but questioning how we perceive it. Here, realism reflects a constant negotiation between what we see and what we feel, against the changing backdrop of these strange isles.

This issue, we’re investigating how lifestyle has swallowed up the phenomena previously known as culture. While culture is fundamentally about creative action and mutual fashioning – how people intentionally shape their worlds and social realities – lifestyle is about pleasure, product, and self-optimisation. In this issue, we dive into anti-ageing technologies, Instagram food culture, healthcare communism, the nature of the internet, the perils of the algorithm, the fetish of the property TV show, how Intellectual Property law has ruined film, and much, much more. Order the new issue today

Venetian heritage meets show-stopping spectacle in Rene Caovilla’s Cleo, the go-to shoe for the red carpet. Video by Matei Octav.

Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection follows the lives of Tom and Anna, two Southern Europeans living in Berlin, working as graphic designers. Based on George Perec’s Things: A Story of the Sixties, the novel is the story of two people defined almost entirely through where they live and what they consume. Here, Vincenzo reads an extract for TANK. You can read our interview with him in the new issue here.

Spot the touristy touches. Longchamp and Gloverall fuse French flair and British craft for a capsule collection that can't get enough of the city. Videography and editing by Ali Golsorkhi Ainslie. The music is armonk by mobygratis.

X Zhu-Nowell is the director of the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. They spoke to Thomas Roueché about the museum’s location at the junction of the colonial past and technological present, and how young people interact with art. This film was shot at the museum and around Shanghai by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie.

Jeremy Atherton Lin reads from his new book Deep House, an erotic and politically charged memoir examining the significance of housing precarity, sex, and legislative activism. 

We showcase a few of our favourite looks from our Summer 2025 issue, shot on location at the TANK offices. 

Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a giant of letters. He sits down with his friend, Nadifa Mohamed, for lunch and a conversation about his new novel, Theft, which follows the lives of three young people in 1990s Zanzibar. 

Thanks to Clipstone restaurant, London W1W 6BB, where Nadifa Mohamed and Abdulrazak Gurnah had lunch.

We’re celebrating a decade of the summer reader with an issue that strives to step beyond the limits of the literary. From a Romanian-language novelist who has never left his hometown in Japan, to Joan Jonas’ voiceless sculptures in wind, to Mark Pilkington’s collection of books on magick and the supernatural – we’re looking at the spaces in between meaning. Buy your copy today

If Chloe Qisha has a mission statement, it might be best summed up by her recent single “Sex, Drugs & Existential Dread”, a barbed anthem punctuated with a demented saxophone solo. It is Qisha’s philosophy of remixing classic styles with clever contemporary twists that makes her such a natural fit for Chanel Beauty “Timelessness in creative output is extremely important to me. Chanel holds such history, and I think they’re incredibly good at pushing the envelope and reinventing themselves without losing the magic of who they are at their core. They inspire me in that way.”

AKONI tasked TANK with a question: how does creative vision work? To answer, we brought together three leading voices from across art and architecture. In this first episode, we speak to multidisciplinary artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria about their 100-year project at Somerset House, how leaving America shifted their perspective, and the benefits of sometimes performing blind.

AKONI tasked TANK with a question: how does creative vision work? To answer, we brought together three leading voices from across art and architecture. In episode two of the series, we speak to Owen Watson, director of the award-wining architectural practice 6a. We spoke to Watson about designing the museum of the future, Juergen Teller’s favourite concrete mix, and how visiting old projects can be like meeting your ex.

AKONI tasked TANK with a question: how does creative vision work? To answer, we brought together three leading voices from across art and architecture. In the final episode of the series, we speak to Eva Langret, artistic director of Frieze London about creating a space for 90,000 people, being at the service of the artist, and on curation as storytelling. 

Fendi’s dynamic autumn/winter 2025 collection, as directed by Anne-Sophie Soudoplatoff. Original music and sound design by Dimitri Soudoplatoff.

Chanel’s recent Métiers d’arts collection in Hangzhou was a celebration of delicate, dedicated artistry, inspired by Coco Chanel’s collection of painted coromandel screens. 

The cyclist has long inspired Johanna Parv’s modular designing, and this season reaches almost terminal velocity. Parv has perfected the art of introducing the technical to the glamorous, with sleek, synthetic drapery and ventilation slits and zips. Stay for the heavy breathing – whether it’s induced by a long bike ride or something altogether more sexy is up to you.

A model levitates, holds a uncomfortable-looking pose, and is squashed into a balls of plasticine. This is the moment before it all slides into proper debauchery – a feeling often exuded by Popova’s ravey, loungey, unapologetically hedonistic design.

London-based menswear designer Luke Derrick designs for “men who want to wear a suit but don’t want to spend any time ironing”. His new campaign of his existing collections, however, looks as sharp as anything, and is a masterclass in lazy elegance and reluctant machismo. 

The Ds squared – Dean and Dan Caton – were yanked out of the back of a police van to accept the applause for their runway show, which featured Doechii fresh from her Superbowl success and Naomi Campbell walking in black leather. A pitch-perfect way to celebrate 30 years.

For Milan Fashion Week, Danish/Italian uniform company Older joined forces with FACETASM, the anarchic Japanese ready-to-wear brand, for a capsule collection that blurred the lines between functionality and aesthetics. Worn by staff in two locations across the city, the collection looked to question how fashion interacts with its immediate surroundings. 

“We are in a very black moment,” said Muccia Prada gravely, of her relatively dark and un-showy Milan show. What we see on the Prada runway is often linked to externalities like art or politics, the connections are often noted by Mrs Prada herself – in this instance, something rangy and roomy (required perhaps for enabling us to be moving fast on this occasion).

Gucci sent out models for both mens and women's collection in looks designed by the in-house team, with creative director Sabato de Sarno having left the post last month. Perhaps the taunt, edgy live score by composer Justin Hurwitz corresponded to an underlying sense of strain and anticipoation in a collection of many highlights but lacking a central threme.

The Berlin-based darkwave duo on the joys of analogue synthesisers and Brian Wilson's genius.

The Kampala-based metal innovator discusses collaboration and his new album The Adept.

The End of the Road founder on 20 years of the UK's most acclaimed festival.

TANK caught up with the duo running Amniote Editions, Europe's most forward-thinking record label.

The composer and multi-instrumentalist on his new album Magic Seeds.

A new mix from the prolific producer brings 80s DIY aesthetics to the fray.

The New York industrial rockers spell it out for us. 

The Danish poet and songwriter on love, loss and Luton Airport.