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Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments

Andy Warhol Warhol's silkscreen prints and portraits celebrated celebrity and mass culture, using commercial techniques to elevate popular figures and challenge traditional art hierarchies. --- Jean-Michel Basquiat Basquiat combined drawing, painting, and text in neo-expressionist works that engaged with art history, boxing, and African American identity, layering imagery with gestural mark-making. --- Glenn Ligon Ligon's practice uses text, photography, and printmaking to explore race, identity, and language, often appropriating and recontextualizing cultural references. --- Hank Willis Thomas Thomas works across photography, sculpture, and installation to interrogate how Black bodies are represented in media, sports, and public monuments. --- Lisa Brice Brice creates paintings and works on paper that explore the female body, abstraction, and gesture through expressive brushwork and layered compositions. --- Keith Haring Haring's paintings and drawings feature his signature dancing figures and bold linework, addressing sexuality, mortality, and social issues through accessible, energetic imagery. --- Carrie Mae Weems Weems uses photography and digital media to examine race, identity, and historical narrative, combining documentary approaches with conceptual strategies. --- Larry Fink Fink's black-and-white photography captured social life, celebrity, and urban spaces with intimate, candid framing.

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Rising Up traces more than two millennia of artistic engagement with boxing and celebrity, from ancient sculptures to contemporary work. The exhibition features over 150 works by more than 50 artists, exploring how fighters have been shaped as public figures through race,…

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