“In 1968, Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art bought a painting called LOVE and made artist Robert Indiana [85] famous. It became a sculpture, a stamp, greeting cards. And it obliterated the rest of Indiana’s career. The artist has been pretty much ignored by the art world for the past few decades. Not sneered at, he says – just ignored. ‘I wasn’t aware that I was disrespected,’ he says, in a raspy baritone. ‘I’ve only been neglected.'”
But that’s changed. Indiana recently had a career retrospective at the Whitney that has travelled to San Antonio’s McNay (through May 25). Read more about the artist here and at his website.
