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Meanwhile, conceptual art maven Yoko Ono performed “Blueprint for a Sunrise” (2000), a call for peace and healing, at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT in late October. The List’s annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art, which occurred last weekend, featured a panel of artists and critics who decried the war in Afghanistan and waxed nostalgic for the hippie mentality of the 1960s...
...support. In the case of art, the war represented the rejection of love and beauty; supporting the war would mean that one was unable to critically question the goings-on of the outside world. Avant-garde art and music literally began sleeping together. John Lennon and Fluxus artist Yoko Ono’s famous bed-in, followed by their erection of billboards in cities around the world reading “WAR IS OVER” epitomized the joint efforts of the musical and artistic communities in to effect social and political upheaval...
Article to Be Written in Your Head: See Yoko Ono’s retrospective “YES Yoko Ono” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Imagine an article that discusses the history and significance of her work. Try to forget that she married John Lennon...
...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?...
...sixties spelled an end, too, for the art of Yoko Ono. After a retrospective in 1971 at the Whitney, Ono focused on music and video composition until a brief return to the art world in 1988 with some bronze casts of earlier works. Scattered pieces in the 90s are of interest (though few are included at MIT), but lack the visionary drama of her first events and performances. Instead, Ono’s idealistic faith in shared values and experiences has been channeled into new works that, lacking her former intellectual rigor, are more consolatory than conceptual...