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...above “instruction piece” is closely modeled after similar pieces Yoko Ono composed in the early to mid-1960s. Tersely elegant, these simple works, from “Painting to Be Stepped On,” “Leave a piece of canvas or finished painting on the floor or in the street” to “Lighting Piece,” “Light a match and watch till it goes out” represented the vanguard of New York conceptual art before the term “conceptual?...
...retrospective offers an incomparable opportunity to take stock of this often overlooked and misunderstood figure, long admired by the art world but demonized by the general public. Mention Ono and you inevitably summon up two popular misconceptions: first, that she single-handedly disbanded the Beatles, and second, that her artistic celebrity was purely by association. As the MIT exhibit suggests, both statements are patently false. While Ono and Lennon’s infamous “Bed-In,” in which the newlyweds occupied hotel rooms to protest the Vietnam War, attracted media attention solely through Lennon?...
...Evening Light Go Through” (1966), which makes nature the object of wondrous contemplation, and the famous “Painting to Hammer a Nail” (1966), a white plaster-board which is only completed once the viewer has pounded in nails using an attached hammer. Ono is said to have fallen in love with Lennon when, at a 1966 exhibition, he asked her permission to add a nail to the work. She told him that a nail cost five shillings, to which Lennon responded by asking if he could hammer an imaginary nail into the surface...
...films are presented more faithfully—and, considering that most of her other works are readily “imagined” in the comfort of your dorm-room, they constitute the best reason for visiting the show. In the age of Bergman and Godard, Ono was once again at the forefront of cinematic experimentation, taking the medium to new levels of abstraction to revolutionize the way we see. The highlight here is “Film No. 13 (Fly)” (1970), in which a woman’s naked body is transformed into a surreal landscape...
...exhibition downplays Lennon and Ono’s joint projects, which began a couple of years before their marriage and lasted until Lennon’s death in 1980. However, the scraps provided are important historically and flesh out the political dimension of Ono’s career. Ono has said that her art is about the power of the imagination to change the world through “wishing.” This principle underscored her and Lennon’s anti-war campaign of 1969, in which they erected giant billboards in prominent locations in cities across...