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Feb 20, 2023 · To commemorate her 90th birthday on Saturday, more than 50 artists and fans gathered at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park to take part in “Morning Piece for Yoko Ono,” a 1960s-style art...
Dec 8, 2021 · In the series, McCartney himself — from the vantage of January 1969, more than a year before the band’s public dissolution — pokes fun at the idea that the Beatles would end “because Yoko sat on...
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- 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 ...
Feb 18, 2023 · It’s Yoko Ono ’s 90th birthday on Saturday (18 February)! The artist, who was born in 1933, is celebrating her big day by releasing an online edition of her ‘Wish Tree’. The ‘Wish Tree’ enables...
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May 22, 2024 · dear yoko. Yoko Ono’s Mind Games—And Her Lasting Legacy. A show at London’s Tate Modern reveals the astonishing breadth of a career often shadowed by questions about fame, celebrity, and a...
Apr 22, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country’s leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono. The groundbreaking artist, filmmaker and musician is this year’s recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal, an honor previously given to Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison among others.
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Jun 13, 2022 · Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist? Louis Menand on Yoko Ono and her achievements before the Beatles.
