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Opening at MFA-MIT
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Joanne Silver, writing for the ARTS section of the Boston Herald on Monday, October 22, 2001 begins, "Yoko Ono has been a celebrity for more than three decades and an artist even longer, but her new show at MIT might be the first chance many people have had to become acquainted with her visual output. Once labeled a dragon lady by the press and 'the world's most famous unknown artist' by her late husband, John Lennon, Ono turns out to be a prolific creator of ideas and things in many media."
Silver describes the Yoko lecture which took place on October 20:
"Youthful and animated at 68...At various moments, she donned a nightgown, connected her listeners with multiple skeins of gray yarn, and confessed it was the sex that attracted Lennon to her."
Yoko wore an American flag pin to the opening of the MIT exhibit. Silver: "She smiled as she gestured to it: 'This is the broach I gave to John when he got his green card - in 1975.' She wears it now in peaceful solidarity with America."
Silver: "Born into a prominent banking family in Japan, Ono remembers loneliness along with exposure to art and music. She imagines that's why she gravitated to works that require others to complete them - from her early instruction paintings to the 'Wish Tree' outside the gallery, with an invitation for visitors to add their own hopes to the tree. Ono recalls playing with a caretaker's child when she was little, coaxing her into joining her experiments. Half a planet and more than a half-century later, Ono is still trying out new ideas, eager to involve others in the outcomes."
(Boston Herald article thanks to Ron)
