Seventy-six years ago last April, a group of Italian artists mounted the Clock Tower in St. Mark`s Square in Venice to scatter leaflets that denounced the city.”Let us fill the stinking little ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new exhibit looks at the intense rise and fall of the art ... the slap and the blow with the fist,” declared F.T. Marinetti in “The Futurist Manifesto,” which appeared 105 years ...

It called for the demolition of museums and libraries, contempt for women and the glorification of war, "the world's only hygiene". It promoted "the beautiful ideas which kill" and claimed that beauty ...

Marinetti made art into a kind of Punch and Judy show, full of pantomime fisticuffs and bold, ... The bluster and bravado of any Futurist manifesto is at once self-parody and serious polemic.

But the link is also one that today's futurists would prefer to avoid in part because of another element of the artists behind the Futurist Manifesto of 1909: Marinetti and his cohort embraced and ...

A comprehensive exhibition at Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau, called "Languages of Futurism," commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first Futurist Manifesto by documenting the diversity of ...

In his editorial, which he called "The Futurist Manifesto", Marinetti made the startling claim that the crash was fun.There was the thrill of feeling a big, magnificent machine "hurtling at ...

There is a futurism in this art, insofar as it is stylized as a 1980s retro-futurism, featuring DeLoreans and Tron-like virtual landscapes.Fascist art is typically full of contradictions, Ben ...