The inic "LOVE" art peice by Robert Indiana is world famo, but few know was spired by a gay romance - and there was a "F**K" versn, too
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ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST INIC PIEC OF ART WAS SPIRED BY A GAY ROMANCE
LOVE had untercultural implitns as Ameri tensified s mpaign Vietnam: for many the antiwar movement, love and peace were terchangeable – and s universal votn had particular ronance g om a gay man the years before Stonewall.
Robert Indiana, a pneerg Pop artist whose gay inty was often obliquely exprsed his patgs, sculptur, and prts, lived and worked on all five floors of the former dtrial buildg at 2 Sprg Street, on the rner of the Bowery, om 1965 until 1978.