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[[top margin]] ART & AUCTION JULY-AUG 84 RR 84 [[/top margin]]

OLYMPIC ARTS FESTIVAL 
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Gold Medal Arts


Los Angeles becomes a cultural showcase of the world when the Olympic Arts Festival opens the first of June.

When sixteen artists were commissioned to "create any image you wish" for the 1984 Olympics, it resulted in fifteen official fine arts posters. The one above is by Robert Rauschenberg.

There's more than muscle at the Olympic Games this summer in Los Angeles. The athletic events are complemented by every field of the arts at the Olympic Arts Festival.

The juxtaposition of art and the Olympics began with the founder of the modern games, Pierre de Coubertin, who believed that the Olympic idea was a philosophy celebrating the complete individual. From its small beginnings in 1912, this idea continued to blossom, growing to its current incarnation in the 1984 Olympic Art Festival. From June 1 to August 12, this ten-week extravaganza of world culture features over four hundred performances of theater, dance, and music; twenty-two exhibitions; and seven minifestivals. Though international in scope, the festival will highlight American artists and the burgeoning of the Los Angeles art community. 

Countless dance companies; thirty theater groups; a plethora of visual-arts exhibitions; film, video, animation festivals; and music offerings will make the summer of 1984 a landmark season for the arts.

The Olympic Arts Festival will be staged primarily in Los Angeles and neighboring communities. Major performing-arts sites include the University of California at Los Angeles, the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, the Japan America Theatre, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the Hollywood Bowl. For more information about festival events, call 213/741-7777 (hearing impaired, 213/746-9025) or write Olympic Arts Festival - LAOOC, P.O. Box 9984, Marina Del Rey, California 90295.

So when the arts festival officially opens June 1 with the unveiling of Robert Graham's majestic, eighteen-foot-high bronze sculpture Olympic Gateway, it will mark only the beginning of ten art-filled weeks. Join us as we explore this cultural showcase of the world.

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