The morning after Genuine Fake Premium Economy opened at the ICA, TANK's assistant editor Matteo Pini sat down with artists Jenna Bliss, Jasmine Gregory, and Buck Ellison to explore how the long shadow of the 2008 financial crisis haunts their work. From Ellison's material catalogues of imagined finance bros to Gregory's doctored Patek Philippe advertisements, the artists discuss how the aesthetics of wealth management and economic precarity have become embedded in contemporary visual practice.

The historian Faisal Devji traces the root causes of the endless wars in Western Asia. From Palestine to Tehran, borders crumble and a deficit of sovereignty in the Arab world is destabilising the world economy and reshaping its map.

Shohei Shigematsu is an architect and partner at the architectural firm OMA’s New York office. Working across the intersections of architecture, fashion and art, he has helmed OMA’s projects in the Americas for over a decade, most recently overseeing the expansion of New York’s New Museum. With TANK, he discussed museums, interdisciplinary design, and the purposes of civic space.

For TANK, economist Ann Pettifor breaks down the theory underpinning her new book, The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet, and reveals how we may all be embroiled in a giant gambling ring.

At Art Week Tokyo (AWT), artists assemble to interrogate the meaning of realism in the “post-truth” age. Shuttled from museum to gallery on AWT’s neon-green buses, Thomas Roueché reports on the dialogues taking place between art, politics and history across Japan’s capital. 

Giorgio Armani has long been associated with muted tones, precise cutting and a kind of post-gender sophistication, a legacy that continues to grow in the wake of his death in 2025. Caroline Issa considers what made the Italian designer's work so consequential.

A trip to Mongolia becomes a test of sobriety, faith and technological dependence. In his journey from the steppe to the city, Jacob Dreyer collides against the risks of solitude and the desire for companionship.

Gay culture has never been more visible – or more safe. Matteo Pini explores the erosion of transgression in an era of apparent liberation.

Prediction markets, which hit record trade volume in 2025, may not only be forecasting the future but manipulating it. As the market continues to boom, Ayesha A. Siddiqi considers the impact of uncertainty, crises, and politics being turned into tradeable assets.

Playing Project Zomboid, one can be a risk-taker or a survivalist. Considering the zombie apocalypse game through a Thoreauvian lens, Will Wiles asks what it means to stay alive when death is inevitable.