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Photos: Here's What 50 Years Of Public Art In NYC Looks Like

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Published Oct 20, 2017

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Robert Indiana, Love, 1971, Doris D. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, Manhattan, NYC Park. Now part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s permanent collection, Robert Indiana installed his famous sculpture at the entrance of Central Park in 1971. Though there are now over 40 versions of this sculpture on view around the world, this was the original.

 

Photo courtesy of NYC Parks Photo Archive

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