Audio Slide Show: Peter Schjeldahl on Italian Futurism

Recently in the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl reviewed “Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe,” a new show at the Guggenheim. Schjeldahl writes that the show

is a spectacular survey of what has long been the most neglected canonical movement in modern art—because it is also the most embarrassing. An avant-garde so clownish, in its grandiose posturing, and so sinister, in its political embrace of Italian Fascism, has been easy to shrug off, but the show makes a powerful case for second thoughts.

In this audio slide show, Schjeldahl comments on the Futurist movement, focussing on a selection of works from the survey.