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When I opened MASH Gallery in 2018, social media was already part of the conversation. But in the years since, it has shifted from a supplementary channel to something closer to the primary one....

What Are the 5 C's of Evaluating Art?

What Are the 5 C's of Evaluating Art? Walking into a gallery, you might feel it immediately: a painting that stops you, something that pulls you closer before you even know why. But once the initi...

On Collecting: What Happens When the Right Work Enters a Room

Thoughts on living with original art, building a real collection, and what Mystic Seduction is asking of the people who see it. There is a moment every serious collector knows. You are standing in...

Spring and the Art of Becoming

There's something about spring that feels like a reset. The air softens. Light lingers a little longer. Colors return, slowly at first, then all at once. For me, that shift has always been more th...

Curator's Eye: What I See in the First 10 Seconds

There is a particular moment that happens in every gallery I've run, every submission I've opened, every studio visit I've taken. It comes in the first ten seconds. Before I've read the artist stat...

Water as Language: Inside Haleh Mashian's Water Series

Water does not hold still. It moves through light, carries memory, and shape-shifts between states, glass-smooth in one moment, turbulent and cascading in the next. For Los Angeles-based artist Hal...