Italian ambassador to the United States Claudio Bisogniero announced in the Huffington Post that the bronze “Boxer at Rest” would be displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from early June to 15 July as part of the events for the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S., describing it as “in a word, spectacular”. This will be the first time the sculpture, on loan from the National Museum of Rome, has ever been shown in the U.S. Read more, in Italian.