Tank Magazine, SS26 – The Risk Issue

TANK is an independent UK-based quarterly publication, that covers contemporary culture, fashion, art, architecture, technology and politics.

In this issue:

‘Electrifying. 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 ‘The Risk Issue’, a nod to the dicey waters that characterise the era of burgeoning AI technology, global instability, and widespread misinformation we have been plunged into. Editor-in-chief Masoud Golsorkhi introduces this edition, turning his attention to the dwindling sway of the World Economic Forum, and the era-defining software that is Microsoft PowerPoint: ‘PowerPoint is to corporate capitalism what the stained-glass window was to Christianity.’

Elsewhere, take a behind-the-scenes look at the V&A’s upcoming Elsa Schiaparelli exhibition, accompanied by a brief reflection on her life and a selection of standout pieces from the show. Writers, artists, creatives, and children respond to the question, ‘What’s the riskiest thing you’ve done?’, while in Lynne Tillman’s short story ‘An Underground Girl’, a woman and a cop collide in a Mexican food joint. Plus, enjoy conversations and musings from Peter Wolfendale, Tai Shani, Elizabeth Lovatt, and George Saunders.”