The numbers of visitors to the exhibition have held up despite the closures for Xmas and New Year: we are over the 31,000 mark now. And the responses are encouraging, the Head of Exhibitions at the Bibliotheque de France, Paris, emails describing it as 'formidable', 'passionnante' - it's a pity we couldn't get any further with our idea of having a French side of the avant-garde in London and the English in Paris. The artist, Mel Jackson, emails to say how much she likes it and will be coming back for more. (I like Mel's work too and loved her show at Matt's Gallery).
Chris leaves a message to say that his obituary of Noel Forster is in the Independent. He rings in the evening to confess he borrowed my likening of Noel's action to boustrophedon. This morning I look up my essay in the Flowers East catalogue, and again, 'how all things bind and blend themselves together', I discover my reference to Picabia's 'Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine' (1915) which appeared in the avant-garde magazine '291'. The day before I had been looking through the new 'Google Patents' feature for a 1914/5 sparking plug which might have been Picabia's model e.g. this 1912/14 US model Download SPARKING_PLUG.pdf
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