TANK VOLUME 5 ISSUE 4 “The art world is a space of desire. It essentially belongs to collectors who feed it by sacrificing their wealth on the altar of all the dreams that money can’t fulfill”—art collective Claire Fontaine on radicalism and May ’68 • “Well-behaved women rarely make history”—India’s tennis hope Sania Mirza and her problems at home • “If it happened off camera, it was OK”—Three new films and three new ways of engaging with the Iraq War • “If I shake the web she might think she caught a fly and eat me”—Isabella Rossellini in Green Porno • “It was the seaside town they forgot to pull down. Come, Armageddon, come”—the Folkestone Triennial challenges Morrissey • “I crossed the fence [to flee Romania] with my parents when I was four”—Welcome to Irina Lazareanu’s world • “Where would porn movies get their best titles, if not mainstream movies?”—William E. Jones talks to Stuart Comer • “I read it as a birth scene, where Faye is an exhausted and sceptical mother after giving birth to a phallic Oscar, the greedy and insatiable child”—Lothar Hempel illuminates his lightboxes • “It was clear the band has spent more time thinking about the music than a collective look”—Yeasayer in Radio Tank • “I want to make things that have a tension between luxury and technology. I want to innovate without screaming newness”—Lanvin’s Lucas Ossendrijver on the new menswear • “Blowing up giga ntic holes in the desert is just not possible today”—Cyprien Gaillard talks to Xerxes Cook • “I’m wearing slacks today, but I usually have some tight jeans. Irregular haircuts. And irony. Always irony”—Cadence Weapon’s hipster dilemma • “If not pretentious, much of what comes out of Owen Pallet’s mouth sounds slightly pompous at the least”—Final Fantasy in Radio Tank • “Perhaps when you keep working until you are 100, that rare thing – hindsight – appears before you like an anxious flashhback, urging you to undo mistakes and rewrite history”—the legacy of architectural legend Oscar Niemeyer • “It’s not a vagina, it’s a pixilated OK! logo”—Ann-Sofie Back talks to Isaac Lock • “Imagine Superdome is a town where you could come across anything – a destroyed airplane or even an elephant”—the Palais de Tokyo’s apocalyptic summer show • “Who knows what could happen next? Maybe I’ll go all trip-hop”—MetronoMy’s Joseph Mount in Radio Tank • “People like us couldn’t exist if we weren’t in conflict with something. Opposition is our engine, it lets us exist, and the only moment when there is no opposition is in our images”—Serge Lutens talks to Ali Mahdavi • “I wish I had some wonderful philosophy. I have no philosophy”—Richard Rogers talks to Masoud Golsorkhi • “Anyone who says it’s just noise obviously doesn’t understand the dynamics of how we make music”—S.C.U.M’s Tom in Radio Tank • “As supermodels go, Gisele has to be top of the list”—Jim Goldstein talks to Caroline Issa and Elizabeth von Guttman • “The art that comes out of China is really not any different from the ashtrays that Mercedes-Benz produces for its German cars there”—Jorge Pardo talks to Shumon Basar