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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.  

What can Kleinian psychoanalysis teach us about the recent spate of race riots in the UK? Emily Steer investigates the paranoid-schizoid position of the far right. 

Scent, both potent and imperceptible, constructs environments that invisibly influence our behaviour. Billie Muraben meets artist Racheal Crowther to discuss her upcoming show Liquid Trust, which exposes smell as intoxicant, control mechanism and potential weapon. 

Masoud Golsorkhi traces what links the history of Microsoft Powerpoint, management consultancy and ancient Egyptian propaganda.

On the Indonesian island of Sumba, alive with water buffalo, surfers, and Sandalwood horses, Masoud Golsorkhi reports on the honeymooners drifting through its raw, wind-carved coasts. 

In Montreal, the 19th edition of the MOMENTA Art Biennale, an aerial view provides a key perspective over an art world mediated by technology and, perhaps, uncertain of where it stands.

In Lithuania, a giant Tony Soprano co-exists with crumbling post-Soviet architecture. At the installation Ferma by Gabija Grušaitė, Sofia Hallstrom asks: what can hoarding teach us about memory, resilience and transgenerational inheritance?

Drifting away from the African continent over 160 million years ago, Madagascar evolved in almost complete isolation, making it a vast petri dish of unparalleled biodiversity. Exploring the island by boat, helicopter and perilous trek, Masoud Golsorkhi reveals Madagascar’s animal and human histories.

In the Gulf of Chiriquí, blue-footed boobies and Halloween crabs help to make Islas Secas some of Panama’s most extravagantly wild isles. Nell Whittaker reports.

Jeremy King, London's most stylish restaurateur, has built a career marked by high-stakes gambles and a resounding spirit of generosity. On the site of his latest venture at Simpson’s in the Strand, he spoke to TANK about what gives a restaurant its soul.