IK! News: YES Yoko Ono Opens at MIT In Cambridge, MASS...Entered October 18, 2001

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Walker Art
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Minneapolis

Opening Weekend: Part I

(Entered October 18, 2001)

YES YOKO ONO, a 40-year retrospective of Yoko's visual art, runs October 18 through January 6 at MIT's List Visual Arts Center in the Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday from noon to 6, Friday from noon to 8, Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6. Call (617) 253-4680 or go to
http://web.mit.edu/lvac.

Gallery talks are Wednesdays at noon and Sundays at 2 p.m.

A lecture with Yoko Ono this Saturday, October 20, is sold out. The public
opening reception is Friday, October 19, from 5:30 to 7:30.

FROM THE MIT WEBSITE:

YOKO ONO's first American retrospective, Y E S YOKO ONO, comes to the MIT List Visual Arts Center on October 18, 2001. The exhibition, organized by the Japan Society in New York City, has been remarkably popular, attracting over 150,000 visitors to its recent presentation in Minneapolis. It features approximately 150 works from the 1960s to the present, with a focus on ONO's early period, and includes objects and installations; language works, such as instruction pieces and scores; film and video; music; and performance art.

It is divided into five chronological and thematic sections: GRAPEFRUIT: The Early Instructions; HALF-A-WIND: Early Objects; FLY: Events, Performances & Films; WAR IS OVER!: The Peace Movement & Other Collaborations with John Lennon; and PLAY IT BY TRUST: Recent Work. The exhibition title, Y E S YOKO ONO, refers to the interactive installation known as Ceiling Painting, an important work shown at ONO's historic 1966 Indica Gallery show in London.