I was asked today how many people this biennale is for, and I struggled to come up with a number. There are 100-200 people around the world who I think need to see it to understand where the impulse is. There is a very small group of people here, but I think architecture over several decades has mastered that form of discussion. What we struggle with - and I think there are other fields doing it incredibly well today - is that other category of audience that registers at an exponential kind of scale.
Brett Steele, quoted in Aaron Levy and William Menking, Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse, Architectural Association, 2012, page 30-31. The reference is to the Architecture Biennale in Venice. Cultural events are struggling to get funded; one reason why may be their inability to reach beyond a relatively small core audience.