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February 26, 2018
Gino Severini died on 26 February 1966 in Paris.

September 18, 2017
On 18 September 1913, Umberto Boccioni , departed Milan for Berlin, where the  German painters Franz Marc and August Macke were already at work installing Futurist and Expressionist paintings for what would become known as one of the defining moments of the historical avant-garde.

July 22, 2017
The Futurist poet and painter Francesco Cangiullo died on 22 July 1977.

July 18, 2017
On 18 July 1871, Futurist Giacomo Balla was born in Turin where he began his art studies.

September 28, 2016
Giovanni Segantini died on 28 September 1899 in Pontresina, Switzerland.

July 29, 2016
The Futurist poet and painter Francesco Cangiullo died on this day, 29 July 1977.

March 1, 2016
Futurist painter Giacomo Balla died 1 March 1958 in Rome.

February 10, 2016
Luigi Colombo, who went by the Futurist pseudonym Fillia (his mother’s maiden name), died of tuberculosis on 10 February 1936 at only 31 years of age.

January 13, 2016
For fans of Futurism: Critic Holland Cotter of the New York Times reviewed today an exhibition of Italian modernist art, entitled “Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art,” on display at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York.

November 24, 2015
500 (at least): The number of characters included in Futurist Filippo Tommasi Marinetti ’s parole in libertà, or “words in freedom,” composition entitled After the Marne, Joffre Visited the Front by Car , originally published in 1915.