The Statue

In a moment of reckoning and reimagining for monuments, why do millions of people each year from around the world visit Philly’s Rocky Statue? What does a statue celebrating a fictional boxer tell us about how we memorialize some stories over others? Monument Lab’s Paul Farber dives deep into the story of the statue to the greatest Philadelphian who never lived. The Statue won Silver in the 2023 Signal Awards for Best Arts & Culture podcast. Tom Grahsler was the Executive Producer