ByNatalie Jason 
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 9:04PM
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (WPVI) — “Rising Up — Rocky and The Making of Monuments” is a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia native, scholar Paul Farber, is the guest curator who has made his life’s work the study of monuments.
He hosts a podcast called The Statue, and is the Director and Co-Founder of The Monument Lab — a Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art and history studio that reimagines monuments as places of learning, healing and belonging.
The exhibition brings the Rocky statue — and artifacts surrounding it’s making — inside the museum for the first time, and features over 150 works by over 50 artists spanning over 2,000 years. ‘Rising Up’ runs through August 2nd.
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