January Highlights: Commemorative Stamps, Sales, Tate London

the gnarled knuckles leading almost to a study in vascular and orthopaedic anatomy. Evidence of a long hard life whose vitality has ebbed away; and all this contrasted on the adjoining wall with a landscape of Cephalonia whose beauty is timeless and unravaged. It may not shock, but it is innovative.

[Note - Martin Creed has been announced as the winner of the Turner Prize for his intermittent illumination].

Agatha Christie & Archeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia

VENUE: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1. Tel: 020 7373 8000
DATE: Until 24 March
WHAT IT IS: Tear yourself away from the Elgin Marbles, and Isis in the Egyptian Halls, to enjoy this exhibition showing how the archeological digs undertaken by the "Queen of Crime" influenced her "Who Dunnits". Essential viewing for crime fiction addicts..

British Design and Art. 1500-1900

VENUE: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL. Tel: 020 7942 2000.

DATE: Permanent
WHAT IT IS: The new permanent exhibition of British Design and Art in the six new V&A 'British Galleries' has been acclaimed as "Inspirational, beautiful and unmatched in scope". Send an e-card of the largest exhibit, The 1580 'Great Bed of Ware', (it can sleep 6), by clicking here

The special exhibition "Radical Fashion", A visually stunning and provocative exhibition featuring the work of eleven world-class designers, ends 6 January.
V&A Entry is now FREE.

Exposed: The Victorian Nude

VENUE:Tate Britain , Millbank, London SW1 4RG. Tel: 020 7887 8000.
WHAT IT IS: The first major exhibition in the new Linbury Galleries. The exposure of the body through images of the nude was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art and illustration, fuelling intense debates about the relationship between art and public morals. This exhibition charts the precarious development of subject matter which was both prestigious and dangerous, highlighting concerns about sexuality, desire and censorship.

Art On the Line

VENUE Courtauld Institute Gallery, Somerset House, London WC2.
DATE: Until 20 January,
WHAT IT IS: An accurate reconstruction of a Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, (see the contemporary Rolandson painting to the right), as it would have looked like in the late 18th/early 19th century in the actual setting of the time. English paintings from 1780 - 1836. A remarkable and illuminating exhibition which tells us much about the attitude of artists such as Reynolds, Turner, Gainsborough , Laurence et al to their art. Fascinating.

French Drawings & Paintings from the

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