New works by Umberto Boccioni, the Italian Futurist artist who died at the tender age of 34, are a rarity. But last year, one cropped up at a rummage sale in the English seaside town of Dorset, and ...

On the night of February 25, during Milan Fashion Week, Bottega Veneta’s creative director Matthieu Blazy delivered the final installment of his “Italia” trilogy. Fall 2023 was the third knockout show ...

Live fast, die young: it could so easily be a futurist slogan, the kind of injunction these Italian artists liked to scream out loud across dozing city piazzas. Kill the moonlight! Soar to the skies!

The high-profile Italian collector Roberto Bilotti has withdrawn a major piece by the Italian Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni from an exhibition at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e ...

One of the most devastating conflicts in history, the First World War saw a number of artists enlist as soldiers. Basel Oomph Powered by Basel Tourismus is a curated roundup of the best contemporary ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Was Umberto Boccioni the greatest sculptor the 20th century never had? In March 1912, the Italian visited Paris ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Unfortunately, while the Metropolitan Museum’s Boccioni retrospective was a model of careful research and ...

In 1912, four years before his death during an army training exercise, the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni painted a picture—a very funky picture—of his mother. That painting is now the centerpiece ...

The major Futurist work and early 20th-century epochal piece, Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio), will go under the hammer at ...

Umberto Boccioni’s death in 1916, at age 33, cut short the career of one of the most versatile and important artists of the 20th century. On the centenary of the artist’s death, Milan’s Palazzo Reale ...

In a photograph of the futurists in this all-too-fleeting exhibition, Umberto Boccioni seems innocuous beside FT Marinetti, eloquent leader of the Italian movement that tried to hijack modern art on ...