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Ono has often been associated with the Fluxus group, a loose association of Dada -inspired avant-garde artists which was founded in the early 1960s by Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas. Maciunas promoted her work, giving Ono her first solo exhibition at his AG Gallery in New York in 1961.
Feb 20, 2023 · At 90, Yoko Ono has outlasted her detractors, just as she more or less predicted she would in “Yes, I’m a Witch,” a defiant song she recorded in the 1970s.
May 30, 2024 · Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and musician who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s and who became internationally famous as the second wife and artistic partner of musician John Lennon.
Dec 8, 2021 · The Barenaked Ladies song “Be My Yoko Ono” compares Ono to a ball and chain (for the record, Ono said of the song, “I liked it”), but as the sessions go on, she assumes a weightless quality.
- Early Conceptual Art
- Meeting John Lennon
- Distant Relations with Children
- Art Knows No Boundaries
The daughter of a wealthy Tokyo family, Ono moved to the US as a young woman and became part of New York's artistic avant-garde in the early 1960s. One of her best-known early performances is 1964's "Cut Piece," in which the artist sat passively on stage in her best suit and allowed the audience to cut off her clothes with scissors. It was a daring...
Yoko Ono met John Lennon at one of her exhibitions in London in 1966. Two years later, they started having an affair, and Ono accompanied Lennon to the studio for the recording of the Beatles' "White Album" — breaking an agreement not to bring along female partners. Encouraged by Lennon, Ono is said to have interfered in the recording process. The ...
While Yoko Ono has remained aloof from the public eye, she has admitted in interviews that she had a a distant relationship with her son Sean Lennon from her marriage to John Lennon; and daughter Kyoko Chan Cox from her second marriage to film producer Anthony Cox. Her first pregnancy was not planned and robbed her of her sense of freedom, she said...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono had just returned from a studio recording session on December 8 that year when Mark David Chapman, an obsessive fan, shot Lennon dead. It was in front of the Dakota Building in New York where Ono still lives today. For Ono, art was life, and death, and in 1981 she placed a photo of her husband's blood-splattered glasses on ...
Explore the UK's largest exhibition of Yoko Ono's conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, from the mid-1950s to now. Discover over 200 works, including Cut Piece, Wish Trees for London, and her collaboration with John Lennon.
Learn about Yoko Ono, a pioneer of visual art, performance, filmmaking, and experimental music. Explore her instruction pieces, collaborations with John Lennon, and social activism at MoMA.
