Judging by the ratings, Lenny and I aren’t the only ones
glued to coverage of the Olympics. We’ve been eating dinner in front of the TV
and going to sleep at night with it on.
(Please comment and tell me we aren’t the only ones doing this.)
What does this have to do with art? I just learned from Janelle’s Facebook post
that the Arts used to be part of the Olympics. It was the dream of International
Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin to "marry the aesthetic with the
athletic." He felt that "an internationally-focused revival of the
ancient Olympics would provide an intellectual and moral compass to citizens of
a rapidly industrializing world."
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