Free entry to Seurat's `Bathers'

To celebrate National Gallery Week, jointly sponsored by The Independent and the National Grid, the National Gallery is for tomorrow only offering readers exclusive free admission (usual cost pounds 6 a ticket) to its current major exhibition, Seurat and The Bathers (sponsored by Pearson plc).

One of the truly great paintings of the 19th-century, Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres, completed when the artist was only 25 (he was to die at 32), is here shown for the very first time in the context of Seurat's early work and preparatory sketches, together with several studies for The Bathers' pointillist Seine-side companion-piece, La Grande Jatte. Some 30 other related works by such predecessors and contemporaries as Poussin, Ingres, Van Gogh and Signac are also included.

To claim your free admission: simply present a copy of tomorrow's Independent at the ticket desk on the Sainsbury Wing. To avoid overcrowding, a timed ticket entry system is in operation, with the day divided into half-hourly admission slots. Readers will be offered the next available slot, but may stay as long as they wish. On Wednesdays, the gallery is open from 10am to 8pm.

National Gallery info: 0171-747 2885