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Apindra Swain’s artwork, one of five Covid-inspired pieces from India acquired by Glasgow Museums. Pic: Glasgow Museums IT has become THE phrase of the pandemic, two little words that sum up the last year in a nutshell - Stay Home. An artwork which spells it out with human figures is one of five acquired by Glasgow Museums, which is collecting material to record the Covid-19 pandemic for future generations. Apindra Swain’s piece joins work by Kalyan Joshi, Rajesh Chaitya Vangad, Bahad...

The term “art critic” implies a negativity which by and large doesn’t exist in the writers who sally forth into the art world to create vivid pen portraits of the art they see and the artists they meet. Art critics tend to be art lovers. Not fighters. So it was with the late W Gordon Smith. Smith wrote about art for the likes of Visual Arts Scotland and Scotland on Sunday in an accessible and upbeat fashion from 1980 until his death in 1996. But writing was just one of the many string...