Light Magic: The life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (iToors.com).

'Chilling mystery of Kelvingrove's secret signed Hitler photo' by Anna Miller. The Scotsman, 15 July 2006.

Travels into several remote nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver is Glasgow University's book of the month.

The Hunterian is displaying work by Jessie M King. The exhibition runs till 29 October

The McLellan Galleries are exhibiting some newly-acquired works by Marianne Grant, an artist who survived the Holocaust, drawing sketches whenever she could lay hands on materials to do so.

'The Philosopher's Garden' at the Gallery of Modern Art. consists of photos by Robin Gillanders of Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden, Little Sparta, and the garden at Ermenonville, the latter illustrating Rousseau's Reveries du promeneur solitaire.

"The taste for solitude and contemplation grew up in my heart along with the expansive and tender feelings whichare best able tonourish it. Noise and turmoil constrain and quench them, peace and quiet revive and intensify them.I need tranquility if I am to love." (Tenth Promenade)

Good to see the oil paintings by Ken Currie depicting Glasgow's history are still on show in the People's Palace.

One of the reasons that I love Mr Happy so much is that he was used as the logo for the Glasgow's Miles Better Campaign in the 1980s. I associate it paricularly strongly with Christmas shopping trips, with my excitement mounting when we passed the banner on the Daily Record building on the way into the city. The campaign ran from 1983-1989, and was one of the most successful city promotions ever - marking Glasgow's transition from the "Mean city" of the 1960s and 1970s to the "City of Culture and Architecture" of the 1990s. In the late 1980s, even the leaders of the national polictical parties jumped on the bandwagon - or more ccurately the bus - appearing in an advertising campaign that featured them and the Mr Happy logo on a London bus.

'Glasgow's Miles Better', Glasgow City Council website

'Glasgow's Miles Better - Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs,' The Glasgow Story