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What Actually Makes One Painting Worth More Than Another

A painter's honest answer to the question she gets asked most: why does one painting cost so much more than another that looks just as good?

A Guide to Collecting Art on a Budget

I hear this assumption constantly, that art collecting is only for people with real money. It isn't true, and I've seen enough collections built from nothing to know it. Here's how I'd start if I w...

What Happens in Your Brain When You Stand in Front of a Painting

I used to think of a gallery visit as a nice way to fill an afternoon, nothing essential. Years of watching people stand in front of paintings changed my mind, and it turns out the research agrees ...

Collecting What Moves You

I've watched people buy a painting the way you'd buy a membership, not because the work moved them, but because owning it meant something about where they'd be allowed to stand. I've come to believ...

Beyond Flatness: Material, Surface, and the Limits of Greenberg's Modernism

Haleh Mashian responds to Clement Greenberg's theory of flatness — and why her resin, gold leaf, and impasto paintings push beyond it into sculptural territory.

What I Wish I Knew Before Buying My First Painting

Artist Haleh Mashian on the mistakes, instincts, and lessons behind her first art purchases, and what she'd tell a new collector today.