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Axios
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Chicago to host exclusive U.S. stop for Yoko Ono retrospective
Chicago will be the only U.S. city to see the 92-year-old iconoclast Yoko Ono's new show. Driving the news: " Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" is opening this October at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago. The big picture: The exhibition is a retrospective of Ono's career, featuring more than 200 works, including music scores, installations, a curated music room, films, photography and archival materials. The show is coming from the Tate Modern in London. State of play:" Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" goes back to the start of the artist's career in the mid-'50s, and the role she played in the creative worlds of New York, Tokyo and London. Works include her performance "Cut Piece" (1964), as well as her collaborations with John Cage and her late husband John Lennon. Her banned" Film No.4 (Bottoms)" (1966–67), which she made as a "petition for peace," will also be featured. Zoom in: Visitors can expect interactive and education-based works, according to a release from MCA. Much of Ono's art is centered on the intersection of music, film, and activism, and the exhibit shows the artist's contribution to Fluxus, the art collective and movement founded in New York in the early 1960s, and conceptualism. "My Mommy Is Beautiful" (2004), one of the interactive installations, explores motherhood and allows visitors to share photos of their mothers.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yoko Ono Art Exhibit Heads to Chicago for Exclusive U.S. Run
A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono's art, 'Music of the Mind,' will open at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in October. The institution will display more than 200 pieces, covering a span of more than seven decades' worth of work. These include photography, musical compositions, participatory instruction pieces, installations, and a curated music room, among several other highlights. London's Tate Museum previously showed 'Music of the Mind' last year and reported record turnouts. Some of the notable works featured include Cut Piece (1964), which invited participants to cut off her clothing, piece by piece, as a statement on feminism; her influential book Grapefruit (1964); and the films Fly (1970 – '71) and Film No. 4 (Bottoms) (1966 – '67). Her musical collaborations with John Cage, Ornette Coleman, and John Lennon will also be available to hear. One of her recent Wish Tree installations, on which people write a wish and pin it to a tree — a creation she's been planting consistently around the world since 1996 — will also be on display. More from Rolling Stone Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's Adorable Valentine Album John Lennon and Yoko Ono's NYC Love Story Unfolds in 'One to One' Trailer Sean Lennon Says Yoko Ono 'Never Has Moved On' From John Lennon Participatory works include Painting to Hammer a Nail (1961/1966), Bag Piece (1964), and White Chess Set (1966). There's also a boat on which visitors can write their hopes and beliefs, Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2016); and My Mommy Is Beautiful (2004) a sounding board for people to praise their mothers in words and photo. Ono, 92, moved to New York to study at Sarah Lawrence College in 1953. Three years later, she moved to Manhattan and became an instrumental part of the city's avant-garde scene and Fluxus art movement. In 1966, she met John Lennon, marrying him three years later. The couple released a series of experimental albums in the late Sixties, and she issued her first solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, in 1970. She continued marking art, citing music as a force that kept her going after Lennon's death, and her work has previously been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Japan Society Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, and other institutions. In 2009, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 53rd Venice Biennale, and last year, she was recognized with the Edward MacDowell Medal, another lifetime achievement recognition. 'We are thrilled to present 'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind' here at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — a celebration of Ono's expansive practice which continues to challenge the boundaries of artist and audience,' Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn said in a statement. 'This exhibition underscores the avant-garde and interdisciplinary roots that made the MCA what it is today — our first performance in 1967 featured Fluxus artists. We're overjoyed to bring Ono's work to the MCA, a museum that so truly aligns with her practice and overlaps with her history.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Chicago Tribune
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Yoko Ono exhibition is coming the MCA — with Chicago as its only US destination
A new solo exhibition dedicated to Yoko Ono is coming to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago next fall, according to an announcement Monday. 'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind' will open in October, with the MCA (220 E. Chicago Ave.) as the show's only U.S. venue. It comes to Chicago from the Tate Modern in London, where it reportedly set attendance records. Created in collaboration with Ono's studio, 'Music of the Mind' covers some 70 years of the artist and activist's career. It includes more than 200 works across several genres, including film, music, musical scores, photography, art installations, archival materials and what's described as a curated music room. There also will be a number of interactive and viewer-participation elements. 'The exhibition reveals Ono's innovative approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment,' according to the MCA's description. It 'underscores Ono's legacy of radical performance and her significant and influential contributions to visual art, including Fluxus and Conceptualism, music, film and activism.' Ono, now 92, began making art in New York in the late 1950s. Along with being known as the wife of the late John Lennon, she worked with other musicians including John Cage and Ornette Coleman. Exhibition highlights also include her performance 'Cut Piece' (1964), a significant work of feminist art, as well as participatory artworks such as 'Painting to Hammer a Nail' (1961/1966), 'Bag Piece' (1964) and 'White Chess Set' (1966). Chicagoans can also expect to see Ono's peace-driven artworks on billboards around the city and at the MCA.
