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Old 02-14-2018, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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That's interesting. There's a lot of agricultural preservation in the Philadelphia metro, as well.
Actually, while we do have programs that buy up agricultural land in order to prevent development on it, we have no formal governmental or zoning prohibitions that apply to agricultural land on an across-the-board basis, and that's what makes this area different from metropolitan Baltimore, or at least Baltimore County.
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Old 02-14-2018, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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The story I heard is that ours is the original. Indiana didn’t patent it (or whatever you do to protect art from being copied), so there are quite a few copies out there. There is even one on the Penn campus. The letters and coloring actually appeared on the cover of a popular and cheesy novel from 1970 called Love Story:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(novel)

The book (and movie) were inescapable for those of us of a certain age. I have no idea if Indiana was involved in the cover design or whether he copied it himself for the sculpture.
It was my understanding that Indiana himself had a hand in the various reproductions of his sculpture and graphic. Remember, it's Pop Art, not high art, and one of Pop Art's main points was that it often dealt with things that are commonly reproduced, like comic panels and product packaging.
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Old 02-14-2018, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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The Philadelphia Love Statue is not the original. The original in in Robert Indiana's homestate of...Indiana.

He has made many versions in many languages all over the world.

Ours has been here a long time and is one of the more iconic ones due its location.
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Old 02-14-2018, 04:13 PM
 
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The Philadelphia Love Statue is not the original. The original in in Robert Indiana's homestate of...Indiana.

He has made many versions in many languages all over the world.

Ours has been here a long time and is one of the more iconic ones due its location.
It first appeared as part of the Bicentenial.
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Old 02-14-2018, 06:01 PM
 
Location: Center City
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The Philadelphia Love Statue is not the original. The original in in Robert Indiana's homestate of...Indiana.

He has made many versions in many languages all over the world.

Ours has been here a long time and is one of the more iconic ones due its location.
This is one of the reasons I love to come here. I’ve been curious about his name ever since I learned about this sculpture. Just now, I went to Wikipedia which says he was born as Robert Clark and grew up in Indiana, but gives no time or reason why he took on the name. I’m still curious about any link to the Love Story book cover.
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Old 02-20-2018, 12:53 PM
 
Location: New York City
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/b...3DABDD&gwt=pay

Schuylkill Yards made the NY Times.
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Old 02-20-2018, 01:10 PM
 
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I'm glad they sent their photographer on such a nice day.
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Old 02-20-2018, 01:32 PM
 
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I'm glad they sent their photographer on such a nice day.
Seriously, it looks like they waited till this morning to take some shots. They should have shot the inside of one of the construction site port-a-potty's while they were at it.

Last edited by AJNEOA; 02-20-2018 at 01:40 PM..
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Old 02-20-2018, 03:29 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Former Gallery mall office space sold to N.Y. buyer for $41.8 million - Philly
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Old 02-20-2018, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Wow. Maybe they'll consider re-cladding that dirty-ass exterior.
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