{"id":174645,"date":"2026-04-24T07:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174645\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:04:12","slug":"philadelphia-museum-of-art-previews-rocky-exhibit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174645\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Museum of Art previews &#8220;Rocky&#8221; exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosted a preview of a new exhibition focused on the Rocky statue at the base of the museum&#8217;s steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The exhibition is titled, &#8220;Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is timed to coincide with the nation&#8217;s 250th anniversary and the 50th anniversary release of the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A talk on Thursday featured guest curator, Paul Farber, and Jacqui Frazier- Lyde, daughter of boxing great, Joe Frazier.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A statue of Smokin&#8217; Joe will move to the base of the Art Museum steps, where Rocky once stood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Frazier-Lyde said Sylvester Stallone based some of his iconic film series on her father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The exhibit opens to the public on Saturday, April 25th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosted a preview of a new exhibition focused on the Rocky statue at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12635,78325,52619,78324,69,71,12634,70,17586],"class_list":{"0":"post-174645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-art-museum","9":"tag-jacqui-frazier-lyde","10":"tag-joe-frazier","11":"tag-paul-farber","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-museum-of-art","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-rocky-statue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}