What shall we do today?

In the UK, today is Boxing Day which is a public holiday. The period between Christmas and New Year is also very often an extended holiday period for a number of people. "He who must not be bored while I sketch" and I were just trying to decided what we're doing today and later in the week.

One of the things we will be doing later this week is going to see the Holbein exhibition at Tate Britain - but unfortunately not today as it doesn't reopen until tomorrow after their Christmas break

For those of you would rather see art than hit the winter sales, here's a list of some of the exhibitions in London which can be visited before New Year's Day.

• National Gallery
• Velaquez - until 21st January 2007 Slideshow of paintings from the exhibition here.
  
• Cezanne in Britain - until 7th January 2007
• Dutch winter scenes - until 2nd January 2007
  
• Tate Britain
• Holbein in England - finishes 7th January 2007
• Tate Britain: Turner Prize 2006 - finishes 14th January 2007
• East West: Objects between cultures - finishes 18 February 2007
  
• Tate Modern
• The Unilever Series: Carsten Holler - finishes 9 April 2007. Note that tickets for the slides are free - but very popular
• National Portrait Gallery
• David Hockney Portraits - until 21st January 2007
• Photographic Portrait Prize - until 17th February 2007
• Courtauld Institute of Art: David Tenieres and the Theatre of Painting - finishes 21st January 2007
  
• V&A Museum:
  
• Leonardo da Vinci - Experience, Experiment, Design - until 7th January 2007
  
• At Home in Renaissance Italy - until 7th January 2007
  

In the meantime, we've decided we're going to Blackheath today to walk in Greenwich Park and to look at the view of London from the Old Royal Observatory - which is of course home to Greenwich Mean Time (or GMT) being located at the Prime Meridian - (i.e. zero degrees) - inbetween the western and eastern hemispheres.

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