We release details of Detroit exhibition on America’s love for the artist, plus others in Frankfurt, Potsdam, Santa Barbara and Columbus

Sale was stopped at last minute after city received financial support from Michigan

As midterm elections approach, take in art that takes on issues at stake

New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester

French museum takes Cosmopolis biennial platform to southwestern China less than a year before Shanghai outpost opens

Rashid Al Khalifa of Bahrain is showing his art in London’s Saatchi Gallery

Among the works on show are an exploration of the steel industry and its workers, a film about Jean Genet and the Black Panthers, and a close look at military bases and satellites

From the idealistic beauty of Edward Burne-Jones to the dystopian nightmares of Cold War Steve

“Miniature retrospective” at the Ashmolean will focus on recent works, such as the US artist’s Gazing Ball series

Shows planned for Houston, London, Amsterdam and Den Bosch next year

We talk to the curator Kathy Halbreich about the giant two-part Bruce Nauman retrospective at MoMA and MoMA PS1. Plus, the specialist in Islamic studies Jane Jakeman reviews the new Islamic displays at London’s British Museum. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Celebrate Halloween with Frankenstein, Harry Potter and scary conspiracies

The self-taught artist, whose work commands surprisingly high prices at auction, is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna's Albertina museum

In a range of models for Christopher Park, creators celebrate activists who they feel have been overlooked

Exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art will include works by Veronese, Reni and Rubens

An exhibition at the Morgan Library adds insight through the Venetian artist’s contemporaries

Exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery includes works by Manet, Matisse and Mickalene Thomas

Announcement comes as evidence mounts in slaying of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi

The movement remains a touchstone for creativity and resilience, says the show’s organiser Wil Haygood

After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie

From a “once in a lifetime” show of Henry Walpole's reunited treasures to a final chance to see a Michael Jackson thriller at the National Portrait Gallery

Head downtown for Sarah Lucas, a deep-dive into LES galleries and Toyin Ojih Odutola's beguiling portraits

Exhibition in collector's former Thames-side home follows a successful (and ongoing) treasure hunt

The show’s curator Ingrid Schaffner has avoided an ill-fitting theme and allowed the art to speak for itself—sometimes this works and sometimes it does not