In this article, we analyze the attendance of what we call the general public in plastic art exhibitions. At first, we put in focus the spread of cultural centers or institutes with some of its characteristics, since the 1970 decade, where a great number of exhibitions directed to this kind of public take place. After that, we approach the political importance of this flowing registered in sociological studies concerning people being in touch with art objects legitimated by affluent people. Finally, based on ethnographic research, we reflect on the fact of the plastic art exhibitions be specific and continuous before other situations of artistic products presentation, observing the sense of the public attendance in the exhibitions and the analytical consequences of their study.
art; art exhibitions; cultural centers; public