Yet in their rigid allegiance to the grid, these projects are a useful foil to the more adventurous work.

Their most ambitious and adventurous work to date.

"We're doing the opposite, and a growing audience seems to be asking for more stimulating, adventurous and exciting work."

The festival was conceived as a way to bring adventurous, cutting-edge work to Lincoln Center that would not otherwise be staged.

There's an impression throughout the country that the support for more adventurous work isn't there.

Tundra was founded to provide a venue for adventurous, creator-owned work by talented cartoonists and illustrators.

Haas supported his adventurous personal work with commercially viable photojournalism, advertising, and motion picture stills photography.

The adventurous work had been handled by the old-timers, and many thought that it should continue to be.

"I just don't think," he added, that "a growing subscribership and deserved national profile should necessarily preclude risky, adventurous work."

"What I worry about, as we all do, is whether there will be enough people to support adventurous work," said Mr. Haimes.