The Italian Futurists hoped to change the world, and were improbably successful in hind-sight. But they have never had a proper show in the America. The Guggenheim in New York has set out to change that. For more video content from The Economist visit our website: http://econ.st/1fGW8rM

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1. Italians had the alt right since the 1910's. Just kidding, the art is amazing even if they were kind of douchebags.
2. Marinetti actually died in 1994.
3. thanks for this very needed & amazing video on an indispensable art of the 20th cent, Futurism
4. Considering Filippo Marinetti was a nationalist and remained loyal to Mussolini until his dying day i think it very unlikely that as this video claims he and other futurists would approve of the globalized civilization of the last man that the west has become.
5. For some reason, I'm becoming more interested into Futurism
6. Futurists...Verbal masturbation. It's modern art, liberal and void of tradition and culture.
7. Like Fascism Futurism is not right-wing. Futurism, in politics Fascism, is the true third way and class collaboration national socialism
8. QUANDO ERO PICCOLA MANGIAVO INSALATA DI PETALI DI ROSA......
   MIO PADRE CUCINAVA LE RICETTE DEL LIBRO FUTURISTA SCRITTO DA MARINETTI POI APPUNTAVA ACCANTO I SUOI PENSIERI. CONSERVO GELOSAMENTE IL PICCOLO LIBRO, AMO I FUTURISTI EAMO IL FUTURO !!!
9. Great video. Whats the second painting with the paratrooper?
10. I refute the assertion that to be a futurist means rejecting that which lies in the past. I believe the past is the best indicator of what the future becomes.