{"id":476568,"date":"2026-02-18T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476568\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:38:13","slug":"amor-sculpture-to-be-temporarily-removed-from-sister-cities-park-in-center-city-philadelphia-for-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476568\/","title":{"rendered":"AMOR sculpture to be temporarily removed from Sister Cities Park in Center City Philadelphia for restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:59PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"AMOR sculpture to be temporarily removed for restoration\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; An iconic sculpture in Center City is on the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Creative Philadelphia says that the city will temporarily remove Robert Indiana&#8217;s AMOR sculpture from Sister Cities Park on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sculpture will be fully restored to repair natural fading and deterioration caused by weather and sun damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s expected to return to its location across the street from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Spanish version of the city&#8217;s famous LOVE sculpture was<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/philadelphia-to-keep-amor-the-bilingual-love-sculpture\/1636865\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> first brought to Philadelphia for Pope Francis&#8217; visit<\/a> back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:59PM PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; An iconic sculpture in Center City is on the move.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[220519,228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-476568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-220519","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}