What are we reading?

Women and our magazines. We are a bountiful market and there are products tailored to what seem like our every whim. And yet so many magazines propagate stereotypes about beauty and body ideals and acceptable and normative behaviour. Two exhibitions at the Women's Library this year seek to explore the relationship that we have with our glossies.

Between the covers: Women's magazines and their readers recounts the history of women's magazines and how content has been changed according to the changing aspirations of the female population. Then there's Black in fashion: Have we turned the page? which looks at issues of race in print media - in particular the ways that non-white models are much less widely used and the reasons behind this.

The ideas brought up in these two exhibitions are close to our heart at Spank and we're really looking forward to getting down there and exercising our brains a bit.

Get Spooked

Ever fancied pretending you were among the few survivors of a horrific disaster that had forced everybody underground? If you have, or if you love depictions of dystopian futures alongside inspired and physically engaging art then Tunnel 228 could have been made for you. If the project's parents (Punch Drunk and The Old Vic) wanted to make this experience nigh-on impossible to find out about then they succeeded. The hunt for information takes you through a maze of search engines and cover-sites, designed to make the whole thing more mysterious.

Tickets for the coming exhibition were snapped up within 24 hours of becoming available, but there are plans to stage it again this autumn. If you were lucky enough to get hold of a pass this time around you could expect to don a mask and travel down into the tunnels underneath Waterloo station, where faceless drones would wander about amongst the art installations. Creepy? Yes. A place to go when you're stoned? No.