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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Rich Tenorio

Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: largest ever boxing exhibition links sport and art

painting of a boxer on the ground with another boxer standing in the distance
Fletcher Martin – Down for the Count. Photograph: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener

Boxer’s canvas, meet artist’s canvas. Sweet science, meet fine arts.

That’s what happens when an art museum – namely the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach – hosts an exhibition about boxing. Titled Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, it’s billed as the largest, most in-depth exhibition on artistic representations of boxing and the sport’s wider impact on global culture.

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