This summer, the Estorick Collection continues its series of interventions by contemporary artists with its most ambitious project to date: Make Futurism Great Again (#MFGA).
Continue Reading...YOU ARE BROWSING: Futurism
Lady Gaga : ARTPOP : autonomous performance artist?
Has Lady Gaga used the music industry as a mere platform for her work as a performance artist?
Continue Reading...Estorick Collection launches its first virtual exhibition: Futurism and the Past
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art has launched its first virtual exhibition addressing Futurism’s relationship with the Italian pictorial tradition.
Continue Reading...Films on Futurism: Vita Futurista Sundays in August at Tate Modern
Films on Futurism: Vita Futurista Sundays 2, 9 and 15 August 15.00 FREE When was Futurism born? And what made this art movement so radical? Futurism’s story unfolds in this documentary, updated to mark the centenary of the movement. Shot in Venice and Rome, Vita Futurista includes dramatic re-creations, key works of art, rare archival […]
Continue Reading...FUTURISM video tour
This exhibition will be the first large-scale showing of Futurism in Britain in thirty years. The movement set out to modernise Italian art and social attitudes and its influence spread across Europe and beyond, revolutionising the response to the dynamism of modern life. Its master of ceremonies was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and this […]
Continue Reading...Matthew Gale, Head of Displays at Tate Modern Interviewed about the FUTURISM show by Maxim Northover
With Our Enthusiastic adherence to Futurism, we will:
1 Destroy the cult of the past, the obsession with the ancients, pedantry and academic formalism. 2 Totally invalidate all kinds of imitation. 3 Elevate all attempts at originality, however daring,however violent. 4 Bear bravely and proudly the smear of ‘madness’ with which they try to gag all innovators. 5 Regard art critics as useless […]
Continue Reading...Manifesto of Futurism 1909
1 We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. 2 Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry. 3 Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstacy, and sleep. we intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, […]
Continue Reading...The Voice and Everything Else Led by sound artist Mikhail Karikis
Mikhail Karikis esimorP, part of Oreet Ashery’s Saints of Whitstable, Whitstable Biennale 2008 Photo: © Marcus Kern As part of the Futurism show at The Tate Modern Mikhail Karikis will be running a workshop called The Voice and Everything Else this Saturday. You might have heard of his recent rough trade album, his website is […]
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