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Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

Start with the paintings, which vibrated with an energy that seemed to radiate outside their own dimensions: Bold primary colors slashed across scavenged cardboard; stark black buildings floating in columns of yellow light; human figures with clenched teeth and waving arms, crowned with slashing white lines or boxlike hats.

Drawing on Islamic design, the Birmingham-based artist offers detailed, colourful depictions of female strength, bravery and independence

Exhibition To Look Without Fear at New York’s Museum of Modern Art displays a staggering 417 pieces from 30 years of artist’s career

Nottingham is home to some of the most impressive artists, many of which decorate the city with their work

She was everywhere and yet not really known

It has been described as a 'fitting goodbye'

Other lives: Artist in a number of media, principally the Japanese art of mokuhanga woodblock printing

The mammoth sculpture has returned home after more than 30 years away

"Dalíland" star Barbara Sukow discusses the couple's sex life, how to play a corpse and working with Fassbinder

Schneemann’s personal life is almost as freely displayed as her genitals in a six-decade retrospective of her fiercely divisive work. Elsewhere, Coates channels the voices inside other people’s heads