Spreading the L-O-V-E.
nytarchivesIn November 1971, the @nytimes staff photographer Don Hogan Charles took this photo as the O in Robert Indiana’s "LOVE" sculpture was lowered into place. The 5-ton sculpture was being displayed at the Fifth Avenue and 60th Street entrance to @centralparknyc during Christmastime. Robert, who created “LOVE” in 1966, is famous for the work. So famous, in fact, that in 2013 the @whitneymuseum opened an exhibition titled “Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE,” both to credit the artist, who was then 85, as the creator of one of Pop Art’s best-known pieces and to help move him past it. Because “LOVE” wasn’t properly copyrighted, it was adopted by many places and products, damaging Robert's standing in the New York art world at the time. “Rip-offs have done a great harm to my own reputation,” he told @nytimes in
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