The recently appointed Assessor of Culture in Milan, Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (who succeeds Sgarbi) is committed to focusing on Futurism in 2009, and plans to have a calender of events organized by the end of this month, according to il Giornale.
Centre Daily News reports that a Penn State grad student in comparative literature was, while waiting in line to vote, “poured over a text of italian futurist poetry.”