Too long away from the blog - travels to The Hague and Paris intervening, a plethora of meetings and nterviews, and then it's catch-up with e-mails etc. The exhibition is going well and interest in showing abroad. This weekend we should be up to 90,000 visitors. And on Tuesday it's the Futurist Banquet.
Looked at 'Cabaret Voltaire' (1916) tonight. Edited by Hugo Ball, in an edition of 500 and at 1 Swiss franc unbound, it includes Huelsenbeck, Janco and Tzara's simultaneist 'L'admiral cherche une maison a louer', Apollinaire's 'Arbre', an etching by Picasso which is 'Mademoiselle Leonie' from his illustrations to Max Jacob's 'Saint Matorel', Marinetti's parole in liberta, 'Dune' and Blaise Cendrars' 'Crepitements' - this has always been regarded by his editors as 'unauthorised', and has an additional line 'comme dans le manifeste futuriste signe Apollinaire'.
The magazine shows quite a mix of Dada, futurism and cubism as well as showing the international nature of the 'little magazine'.
But how did this version of Cendrars' poem get here?