On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto, art historian Maria Gough takes stock of the numerous exhibitions celebrating the movement this past summer, while writers ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,150,520-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Futurist Cooking What it’s about: Sure, food is good and all, but what if instead of providing ...

In 1909, F. T. Marinetti’s “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” declared, “We will glorify war … militarism, patriotism … and scorn for women.” A new show at the Guggenheim Museum featuring the art of ...

On March 11, 1915, a 22-year-old artist named Fortunato Depero announced his intention "to reconstruct the universe." The newest recruit to the Futurist movement--just six years old and made up of a ...

The Guggenheim Museum opened their comprehensive retrospective of Italian Futurism on Friday, the avant-garde art movement of the early 20th century that everyone is talking about. The exhibition ...

“We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap,” proclaimed Filippo Marinetti in his groundbreaking 1909 Futurist Manifesto. To ...

The Futurists have been a problematic bunch from the get-go. On February 20, 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” on the front page of France’s most ...

The Umberto Boccioni retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is an exhibition as welcome as it is overdue. Boccioni was, by common consent, the most energetic and talented of the ...

Viewing now through Oct. 4 in the Reading Public Museum’s Works on Paper Gallery is “Italian Futurism,” a selection of more than 30 small drawings, prints and watermedia from the personal collection ...

“We have to persecute, lash and torture all those who inveigh against speed.” One thing about Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who wrote in French: he knew how to get your attention. In 1909 ...