A new foundation to promote Italian modern and contemporary art plans to open its doors to the public in SoHo in February. For its inaugural exhibition, the foundation, called the Center for Italian Modern Art and located at 421 Broome Street, will feature work of the Futurist artist and designer Fortunato Depero, who once lived in New York.

The show will coincide with a scheduled exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, "Italian Futurism 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe."

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