as they're often claimed to have been? That question keeps coming to mind as I attend the show called "Yoko Ono: Objects, Films." It's on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art here (through next Sunday) and will play the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston early next year....
Yoko Ono in actuality is an uncompromising artistic visionary who was already an avant-garde superstar before she met John Lennon. Today, Yoko is finally recognized as an influential artist who pushes the boundaries
Ailing Yoko Ono is handing her business interests in The Beatles and John Lennon over to their son Sean. The reclusive widow, 87, has not been seen in public
Even so, Yoko Ono’s career as an artist began much earlier when she attended Sarah Lawrence College. It was here in the late 1950s she wroteA Grapefruit in the World of Park(which would eventually become a performance). Her developing interest in experimental literature and performance art ...
Through the ’60s, she set paintings on fire, invited audiences to cut her clothing off and step on artwork, and made over a dozen short films. Ono existed in her own world: When she met John Lennon at one of her shows in the fall of 1966, she had never heard of the Beatl...
Yoko Ono with Best Classic Bands editor Jeff Tamarkin inside of The Dakota, August 2003 But still, to this Beatles fanatic, who also has great admiration for Yoko for her independence in the arts and as an activist, it was something of a surreal feeling to be inside of their personal spa...
in Lennon’s life and the dissolution of his band, which was no doubt a factor in the public perception of her both as a woman and as an artist. But before her marriage to Lennon, Ono’s impact was being felt in subtler ways through the work that she accomplished in the ’60s as ...
but never reaching the point Ono and Lennon wanted. The producer than gave Knowland the address of an Austrian woman who was in London and had outstayed her VISA. Eva Majlata was the sister of a friend of the producer and Knowland was never sure how much she was told about the ...
Ono responded by asserting that she had been alerted to Lennon’s peril. John Lennon 'Didn't Believe in Bodyguards' “I was told he was in danger in New York and that he should be removed immediately,” she claimed. “That’s why I sent him to Bermuda over the summer. … But I co...
A new documentary film called 'Daytime Revolution' will arrive in theaters on Oct. 9, 2024, starring John Lennon and Yoko Ono.