Avant-garde artists revised their work based on audience feedback

Evidence

Rice screened The Flower Thief several times in North Beach that spring, making changes according to the audience suggestions, including bathing the film in blue dye to render it more “avant-garde.” Mead was furious. “Who got your ear? What fuck headed asshole buzzed you into changing that film?” he wrote Rice after one June screening. “Are you going to listen to every asshole diddley bop in San Francisco and the Bagel Shop?” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 158