Introduction / R.W. Flint -- Part I : Futurist theory and invention : manifestos and polemical writings -- The founding and manifesto of futurism (1909). Let's murder the moonshine (1909). Against ...

In 1932, a charismatic Italian poet with a propensity for provocation declared war on his country’s most sacred idol: pasta. It was “an absurd Italian gastronomic religion,” Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ...

Futurism in Art was founded by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti on Feb. 20, 1909. All authorities, including the Encyclopaedia Britannica, agree upon this date. Last week Futurist Marinetti, who has be come a ...

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 ...

Luigi Ballerini is a professor of Italian Literature at UCLA. As a food historian, he has been a part of several futurist dinners. Futurist Manifesto. In it, Marinetti expressed his disdain for the ...

Signor Filippo Tomaso Marinetti founded Futurism in Art with a famed manifesto on Feb. 20, 1909. In the name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the ...

The Guggenheim Museum was filled with noise on Monday evening during “PAAAAAAroooooooooooole in Libertà Futuriste (Futurist Wwwwwwoooooords-in-Freedom),” an eccentric program that breathed new life ...

A hundred years ago, Communist Parties were founded all over the world, including Italy. On November 9, 1921, also the Fascist Party was founded in Italy. Filippo Marinetti, the poet who wrote the ...

The Guggenheim’s Futurism exhibition and the Whitney Biennial offer competing visions of present-mindedness. Interventionist Demonstration (Manifestazione Interventista), 1914, by Carlo Carrà For ...