Tank Magazine Podcast

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.