Nobody came

I attended an art show opening recently - very recently. The artist was well-known and experienced. The show was scheduled for a good, convenient hour - 7:30pm. The room could accomodate about 120 people but only 8 showed up, including myself. I would like to know why. Poor promotion? Low appreciation? The holiday hours? Bad location? No free wine? Not enough friends? Not avant garde enough? I think low appreciation and poor promotion are to blame - in that order. I figure that if someone cares about something they will make every effort to support it. I bet that if the artist had been giving hundred dollar bills away, the place would have been jammed with wall-to-wall self-serving art lovers. The art itself was not at all bad by the way.