Yoko Ono is an American-Japanese multimedia artist, musician, and peace activist. She is best known for her involvement in the Fluxus art movement and, in the culture at large, for her marriage to the Beatles frontman John Lennon. The works of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp were both highly...
Fluxus artist Yoko Ono once tried to install and perform an ad hoc exhibition at MoMA in 1971, but it never happened. Even her solo exhibition that same year at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, very few people knew Yoko Ono was an artist. The Fluxus movement, extant in the early...
In the February issue, the caption for Yoko Ono's Cut Piece, 1964 [Focus, p. Corrections John Lennon once characterized his wife, Yoko Ono, as the world's "most famous unknown artist. Life in Fluxus A retrospective exhibition featuring the work of multi-media artist Yoko Ono will open in...
Once back in New York, Ono resumed her art career to considerable attention from the avant-garde community; by this time, George Maciunas had become the leader of an art movement dubbed Fluxus, whose philosophies were compatible with (and even influenced by) Ono's, prizing abstraction and aud...
From Fluxus Foundation Archive (2009) 1933: Yoko Ono was born on February 18th in Yokyo, Japan into a wealthy household. 1952: Yoko moved from Tokyo to Scarsdale, NY with her family to join her father in late 1952. 1955: She dropped from out of Sarah Lawrence and moved to Manhattan wit...
Yoko (the Japanese word for “ocean child”) Ono (“small field”) was born in 1933 and stands five feet two, weighs ninety-five pounds, more or less. “It is nice to keep oneself small,” she once wrote, “like a grain of rice, instead of expanding. Make yourself dispensable, like...
Cut Piece (1964) performed by Yoko Ono in New Works of Yoko Ono, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, March 21, 1965.Photograph by Minoru Niizuma.© Minoru Niizuma. Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York In October 2000, right around what would have…
MITCHELL: When you met George Brecht and La Monte Young and the other people involved with Fluxus, did you connect with them right away? ONO: Well, some of what we were interested in was the same, but we were all very different people. ...
Ono later compiled these epigrammatic texts—Lighting Piece (1955) offered the direction “Light a match and watch till it goes out”—in the book Grapefruit (1964). Interested in the integration of art with everyday life, Ono became associated with the Fluxus collective, and in 1961 the ...
Ono was a member of Fluxus, an avant-garde art group inspired by Dada. However, she preferred to develop her own career, and was influenced by John Cage and La Monte Young. She explored conceptual and performance art forms. In 1964 she performed Cut Piece at the Sogetsu Art Center in To...