New exhibitions showcase two artists from different generations who had a lot in common when it comes to their use of colour and paint.

Although we might be confidently distant from the Orwellian imagination, systems of information control are still being perpetuated. How can we continue to read this age-old manipulation, as it appears in ever more insidious forms?

When he was made associate artist at the National Gallery in 2009, Michael Landy tried his best to get to know the gallery's collection. He kept coming back to the same image: St Catherine and her wheel. In a new exhibition of collages, sketches and larger-than-life sculptures, Landy has brought Renaissance depictions of the saints to life.

Juliet Jacques considers the changing meaning of a seminal work of performance art.

Tom Humberstone's observational comic for the New Statesman.

The cultural heart of a community is under sustained attack.

Limitation so often breeds invention, except in this case, when it doesn't.

The life and death of the author.

Our cities tell us everything we need to know about architecture and resistance.

Life, death and vanity.

“He really wanted to use the cartoon to change the world, to try to engineer opinions.”

Reality, tweaked.

After Thatcher, political artists need to look harder.

A fabulous send-up of our obsession with celebrity