Yoko Ono at the Broad
Yoko Ono's Wish Tree installation in the Broad's grove of olive trees The Broad's "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" revives a 2024 exhibition at Tate Modern. It's a big show covering a big career, with over 200 works spanning seven decades. For much of that time Ono was among the most famous of contemporary artists, less for her art than for her marriage to John Lennon, her anti-war and Feminist politics, and her tragic widowhood. Despite a résumé blending art, celebrity, and the Pacific Rim, this is Ono's first solo museum show in Southern California. Installation view of Yoko Ono's Lighting Piece , 1955 Yoko Ono, Grapefruit (details), 1964 Ono first came to attention with typewritten instructions for "paintings" (which might more accurately be described as performances). A 1964 artist's book, Grapefruit , collected instructions devised from 1953 onward. Ono did not invent typewritten conceptualism, but her example was globally influen...
