Deeply reported features from the Masterworks Research Team, published weekly.
How to get art appraised: the four types of value, why purpose changes the number, how to find a USPAP-compliant ASA, AAA, or ISA appraiser, and what it costs.
How to become an accredited investor: the SEC income and net worth tests, the Series 7/65/82 credential path, how verification works, and what it unlocks.
Repeat-sales indices track the same work across sales to isolate price change. They are the cleanest art index we have, and they have real, knowable limits.
How Masterworks uses machine learning and statistical models to quantify cultural significance and underwrite art acquisitions, and where human judgment takes over.
How Masterworks picks paintings: choose the artist market first, then buy the best example at the lowest price relative to fair value. The public logic, explained.
How the Masterworks research database compares to Artnet, Artprice, AskART, MutualArt, Mei Moses and others on coverage, depth, and investment use.
How art market cycles move through expansion, peak, correction, and recovery, what triggers the turns, and where the market sits in 2026.
Hedonic regression prices a painting as a bundle of traits, size, medium, signature, provenance, and reads each one's effect on value. Here is how it works.
Hard assets are tangible things with intrinsic value. Financial assets are paper claims. Why the distinction matters for inflation, risk, and where art fits.
Fiscal dominance is when high debt and deficits constrain monetary policy and push toward inflation. Here is why it raises demand for hard assets, and where art fits.
Fee-only, fee-based, and commission advisors are paid differently, and that shapes the advice you get. Here is the all-in cost and how to check.
Lump-sum investing beats dollar-cost averaging about two-thirds of the time because markets rise more often than not. When DCA still makes sense, and how it applies to art.