Ono gradually returned to visual art, creating installations and also exploring photography. Interest in her previous work led to several retrospectives over the course of the '90s, and in 1992 Rykodisc reissued her complete back catalog on CD, as well as the six-CD box set retrospective Onobox...
Art is life . . . It’s about living, but it’s a way of making your life elegant. Yoko Ono It’s true that a smile can take years off a person—not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono’s case. Ono doesn’t look 80 years old in the first place (though, remarkably, she ...
VISUAL ART: You Call It Art. I Call It a Load of Old Fluxus ; Yoko Ono: Odyssey of a Cockroach ICA East LONDONOne of the happier ironies of Yoko Ono's installation Odyssey of a Cockroach is that its Google listing appears under an ad for insect spray. Ever since the Japanese-born ...
Yoko Ono married composer Toshi Ichiyanagi in 1956, but the couple divorced in 1962 after living apart for several years. On 28 November 1962 she married Anthony Cox, an American film producer, jazz musician and art promoter, although the union was annulled on 1 March 1963 as Ono failed to...
2006 Yoko Ono was awarded the International Prize for Visual Arts 2006 of the Cristobal Gabarron Foundation, Spain. 2008 Yoko One was awarded the Distinguished Body of Work Award 2008 by College Art Association and Americans for the Arts National Arts Award. ...
She regarded herself as a hybrid too – between Japan and America, East and West, between visual art, music and performance. CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE That multifaceted artistic practice is what gives Yoko Ono’s work its contemporary relevance, in an era when the boundaries between artisti...
Ono focuses on installation, performance, andconceptual art. Installation art is defined by the artist taking a whole space, room, or building like a museum and transforming it into their art exhibit. The patrons walk in to see an exhibit and are encompassed not only by the art, but the ...
In failing to create much interest over its 26 minutes, “Cambridge 1969” reveals something important about Ono’s art. The performances of hers that work don’t do so merely because she can kick up a unique noise. Instead, the takes that have true...
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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...