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The park is nicknamed LOVE Park for its reproduction of Robert Indiana's 1970 LOVE sculpture which overlooks the plaza, one of three located in Philadelphia. Despite municipal bans and renovations designed to limit the activity, LOVE Park became one of the most famous and recognizable skateboarding spots in the world in the 1990s and 2000s. [1 ...
This sculpture is no longer there (visited 12 May 2016) Jerusalem – An Indiana sculpture showing the Hebrew word for love (Hebrew: אהבה, ahava) is displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; NY – NYC – Kasmin Gallery displaying three blocks: AHAVA, LOVE, AMOR on top of a building along the High Line at 27th Street - No longer there
This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [ 1 ] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [ 2 ] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]
Statue of Kate Smith; Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Philadelphia) Statue of Anthony J. Drexel; Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Philadelphia) Statue of Edgar Fahs Smith; Statue of Frank Rizzo; Statue of George Whitefield; Statue of Matthias W. Baldwin; Stone Age in America; Swann ...
Philadelphia (/ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f i. ə / ⓘ fill-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania [11] and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Eakins Oval is a traffic circle in Philadelphia.It forms the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a central array of fountains and monuments, and a network of pedestrian walkways.
This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that contains one of the largest collections of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris. Opened in 1929, the museum is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum houses a collection of nearly 150 objects containing bronzes, marbles, and plasters by ...