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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zang-tumb-tumb-zang-zang-tuuumb tatatatatatatata. As a war correspondent on the Ottoman battlefront two years before the First World War, the Italian poet F.T. Marinetti heard the language of the ...

IDEAS The Italian poet who is DOGE’s unlikely muse Filippo Tommaso Marinetti heralded ‘Futurism’ in terms that may sound remarkably familiar today.

While speaking at a multi-course banquet in Milan on November 15, 1930, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti presented his fellow Italians with an incendiary call to action. Pasta, he said, was a ...