Announcement Featuring works from antiquity to today, the exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the Rocky statue and its impact on the city’s culture, community, and public art. April 24, 2026 — 2 min read Howardena Pindell, “Video Drawings, Boxing” (1973-1976) (all images courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art) In a moment of reckoning and reimagining for monuments, why do millions of people from around the world visit the Rocky statue by the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ? Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments   traces more than two millennia of artists’ engagement with boxing and celebrity. Ancient sculptures, nineteenth-century European works, and images from the golden age of boxing in the United States, together with contemporary art, reveal how fighters have been shaped as public figures.…