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Guadalupe Maravilla’s Disease Thrower: Purring Monster With a Mirror on Its Back (2022), installed in the Tal-Pilar Church in Valletta, Malta. — Guadalupe Maravilla’s *Disease Thrower: Purring Monster With a Mirror on Its Back* (2022), installed in the Tal-Pilar Church in Valletta, Malta.
Photographer: Julian Vassallo

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By James Tarmy

April 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM UTC

Hi, I’m James Tarmy, and I cover art and culture and real estate for Pursuits.

Last year’s art market was—and I’m being nice here—very boring. Everything seemed stuck in neutral, with art fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach doing … fine, and auctions weeks like the November evenings sales in New York also doing … fine.