The word "futurism" was born in a car crash. At least, that is the story that poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti told back in ...

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 ...

Early one morning in 1908, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Italian poet and founder of Futurism, felt the need for speed. While hurtling through the streets outside Milan, Italy, in his motorcar, a ...

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 ...

Mikhail Karasik, The Drama of Marinetti or the Story of How the Leader of World Futurism Flopped in Russia.A Feature-Documentary-Compilatory-Comedy from the Life of Italian and Russian Futurism in ...

In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow travelers, sending his ...

BERLIN -- On Feb. 20, 1909, the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a prankish polemic by an Italian law-school dropout, who called himself "Filippo Tommaso Marinetti." Written in the form of a ...

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 th… ...

The word “futurism” was born in a car crash. At least, that is the story that poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti told back in 1909, when he coined the term in an editorial for French newspaper Le ...