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The Art of the Olympics
Episode 591

The Art of the Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics.

99% Invisible · Martín Gonzalez, Claire Mullen, Avery Trufelman, Kurt Kohlstedt

July 30, 202434m 2s

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Show Notes

The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics.

First up, a story about the design and iconography of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Then, Kurt Kohlstedt tells us about Olympic poetry.


The Art of the Olympics

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designiconsprotestspoliticsolympicsmexicopoetry