2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows

Carsten Höller, Takashi Murakami, Dia’s Echoes from the Borderlands

Art Basel Miami Beach, Notre-Dame reopens in Paris, and Parmigianino’s Vision of St Jerome

Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas

The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa

Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion

Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawings and tapestries

American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris

US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath

Paris: Art Basel at the Grand Palais and Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso, plus Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives

Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera

Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill

Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence

Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission

Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri

The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst and Surrealism in Paris

Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Willis Thomas at Glastonbury

Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese

Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Guillaume Lethière at the Clark

Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to Goya