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Shanghaiist's Managing Editor, Dan Washburn, snapped this photo at Thumb Plaza in Pudong. That, you may have guessed, is in China. When he directed us toward this picture via his personal website, he asked the same thing we're wondering about: "Can Philadelphia sue?"
Sigh. First our Hollywood movies and now our iconic sculptures. China must be stopped!
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Back in the 90's - the LOVE statue was at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. I have a picture of it!
Doesn't the artist send his "love" all over?
Do you even know the story behind the Robert Indiana work?
It was created for a MoMA Christmas card in 1965, so the original "mothership" is there.
There are many copies of the sculptural version of the piece in places including Vermont, Arizona, Utah, Clinton Hill, Midtown, and many many more throughout the world. It is hardly unique and almost something mass produced. Claiming it would be like trying to claim Starbucks as your own.
The Chinese fake everything. You ever been down to Canal Street? We got one of these in Brooklyn and one of these in Midtown and the one at the Modern Art Museum. There is one out in Scottsdale I saw when I visited my Uncle Vinny who is retired. You guys are funny for not knowing that there are lots of these statues. It is on Wikipeida for Christ sake that there are like a dozen of them. You look like a jibone for not doing research.
Um, this has nothing to do with research, and everything to do with an interesting photo that another -Ist editor snapped. There was no pretense of research there. You'll note that we didn't even claim the statue as ours, although it's certainly an icon here.
The answer is no. And it doesn't make me any happier that a regular Shanghaiist contributor can demonstrate such ignorance on the city he maintains a blog for.
The reason this place is named Thumb Plaza is because its developer, the Zendai Group, probably the biggest real estate developer and investment company in Shanghai, spent a fortune to obtain César's Le pouce (the thumb)sculpture, along with Indiana's Love sculpture. Both are part of the collections belonging to Zendai's Museum of Modern Arts located at the Plaza. This place brings back memories as it used to be my grocery store.
I've also seen this Love sculpture in Japan.
The fact that Philadelphia actually has a park named after Indiana's sculpture in fact surprised me when I first got here.