New blood splattered

Saatchi has a brand new exhibition launching this week. The controversial New Blood show at his gallery features an image of a frightened Diana with blood dripping from her mouth and a nine-foot tall paper skyscraper...

New Blood

In the year since Charles Saatchi first opened the doors to his County Hall gallery, half a million visitors have poured through. It began life with a look back, but it marks its first birthday with a forward-looking show offering a glimpse of works by emergent talents from home and abroad. All are acquisitions made in the last 18 months, and while most are previously unseen, clued-up art lovers will recognise pieces such as Francis Upritchard's 'Moaning Mummy'. Other highlights include a 9ft-tall paper skyscraper. See feature, page 30.

Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective, Portraits

The centenary of the birth of this Anglo-German photographer brings two celebratory exhibitions. The biggest is the V&A's, which presents 155 prints from the Bill Brandt Archive, spanning his early, hardedged documentary images of life to landscapes of 'Literary Britain' and sought-after portraits. You'll find more of these latter prints in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, where Brandt's iconic images of T.S. Eliot and Glenda Jackson are on show.

Heaven On Earth: Art From Islamic Lands

Jewels that once took two years to reach St Petersburg from Delhi by elephant are among these richly decorative works, spanning the 9th to the 19th century and drawn from The State Hermitage and London's Khalili Collection. Islamic art counters a passion for luxury with rigorous abstraction, and the exhibition moves from Qur'anic calligraphy and prayer rugs to figural art and embroidered silks. The final gallery includes oil paintings of the Qajar elite that meld Oriental and European styles.

'I Never Saw Another Butterfly'

Theresienstadt concentration camp was a holding station en route to Auschwitz. In order to give the children as normal a life as possible, the Jewish leaders established an innovative education programme.

Bauhaus-trained Friedl Dicker-Brandeiswas a part of this, and she left behind two suitcases containing more than 4,000 of the children's drawings. A selection is shown alongside work produced by refugee children today.