The exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, presently on view at the Guggenheim, is the first important museum survey of work from this seminal utopian Modernist movement ...

Italian futurism has long been “the most neglected canonical movement in modern art,” as well as “the most embarrassing,” said Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. The artists who lined up behind poet ...

The whole idea was to take the entire known world—its ideas, its institutions, its buildings—tear them apart, and rebuild another one in its place. “We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish ...

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 ...

What happens to an art movement dedicated to perpetual movement when the world eventually moves on? This is among the tantalizing questions provoked by “Italian Futurism: 1909–1944: Reconstructing the ...

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 ...

Link: Italians hark back to the days of Futurism. Italians hark back to the days of Futurism One of Italy's most controversial art movements, which has strong ties to Fascism, is back in vogue with a ...

Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City,February 21-September 1, 2014 The exhibition of Italian Futurism now on view in the main ...

*I had no idea there was a workable, if fragmentary, version of the film "Thais" anywhere. I'd really like to see that movie. *Look at the amount of cinematic stuff here. It's fantastic. Although very ...

Of the many avant-garde movements in prewar Europe—the Bauhaus in Germany, de Stijl in the Netherlands, Constructivism in Russia—Italian Futurism has, until now, received little attention in the ...