We are not averse to a bit of culture here at PCW Towers, particularly when it is just down the road. This grand reproduction of Rubens' Samson and Delilah is one of 30 paintings from the National Gallery that will be on view in the streets of London's Soho district for the next 12 weeks. We are bang in the middle of Soho, so they are (so to speak) our neighbours.

The idea is to publicise how easy it is to go and see pictures at the gallery, which is also just a five-minute walk away. Oh, and to publicise the work of HP, which has been digitising the gallery's collection and which printed out the full-sized reproductions using its new Designjet 10000s large-format low-solvent printer. A waterproof laminate makes the pictures allegedly graffiti-proof. Soho gets rough at night, when gentle PCWers are not around, so it will be interesting to see what state they are in after 12 weeks.

The pictures have been arranged so you can do what HP and the gallery are pleased to call a Grand Tour of some of Soho's sleazier streets. Gallery director Charles Saumarez Smith was tickled by the siting of Caravaggio's Salome receives the head of John the Baptist outside an "adult centre" (above) near a number of doorways bearing signs such as "model upstairs".

"Just the sort of place Caravaggio liked to frequent," he said.

Sexy Salome was probably the first-century equivalent of the local lap dancers, too.

Anyway it serves to show how lucky we are to live in London, with the free gallery down the road where you can slip in take in a picture when you feel like it. Incidentally it has an excellent audio guide. And if you can't make it here, you can take a virtual Grand Tour here. Meanwhile those of a Freudian bent might care to consider why the National Gallery chose to grace Soho's red-light district with two images of female-inspired emasculation.