Books
When Capri Was the Place to Be
Jamie James gives a full, intriguing, detailed history of the island's visitors and expats, a wild panoply of writers, artists, rogues, madmen and madwomen, and thieves.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Art
The Art that Flourished Under Mussolini
While unquestionably autocratic, Mussolini did not oppose the proliferation of unofficial artistic styles.
Art
The Freedom of Futurist Poetry
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 into an extensive survey of Futurist art that's been on view since February.
Art
Italian Futurism, or the Lessons of Art and Politics
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 movement seen in New York since Futurism at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961.