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    It is not the case that If arthood is bestowed by the artworld's representative institutions, museum display is not merely evidence but a constitutive condition of art status.

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    • 1.Pre-institutional artworks (Renaissance paintings, folk art) possessed art status before modern museums existed; status cannot depend on institutions that post-date it.
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    • 2.Museum exclusion often reflects politics and taste rather than genuine lack of arthood; rejected works were art despite institutional gatekeeping.
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    • 3.Street art and digital art achieve genuine arthood through community recognition without institutional display, proving institutions are evidential only, not constitutive.
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    • 1.Institutional authority determines what counts as art through gatekeeping; without museums validating work, no public recognition or legitimacy emerges.
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    • 2.Museum display transforms objects by contextualizing them within art discourse, making their art status dependent on that institutional framing.
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    • 3.Art markets and critical attention follow institutional validation; objects gain ontological status as art only through this upstream institutional act.
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