Brainwash

Brainwash, a weekly online magazine with a libertarian slant, has published an article by Joanne McNeil that uses a discussion of FAKE to launch a rather interesting analysis of aesthetic subjectivity and the economics of scarcity in the art market, concluding that "the business of art collecting, swimming against the invisible economy, is rich and strange, but value of authenticity is as strong as any currency."

Indeed.

For some reason I'm fascinated by the fact that a libertarian website would choose a faux-Cyrillic font for its masthead. I know communism in Russia withered many years ago, but there's something about this font that, for me, still conjures images of socialist revolutionary propaganda. I wonder what Ayn Rand would have thought of this design choice.