Launched by the Franco-Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, the Manifesto of Futurism sharply denounced the stagnancy of ...

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Artist and historian Mikhail Karasik used old newspaper and literary sources to shed light on the legendary trip to Russia made by Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (1876-1944), the founder of Futurism ...

One of the great myths of the modern era is the belief that creative types are instinctively left wing. Show us a man with an affinity for paint or pen or playacting, and we will show you a lifelong ...

“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 ...

If you see any futurists today, don’t forget to wish them a happy anniversary. Feb. 20th is considered the movement’s birthday, as it was on this date in 1909 that Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an ...

On October 15, 1908, the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti raced his new four-cylinder Fiat sports car down Milan’s Via Domodossola. His bright, sunny fall drive was suddenly interrupted when a ...

A tour of the exhibition "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe." At the Guggenheim Museum, curator Vivien Greene talks about the exhibition "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: ...