All posts tagged Yoko Ono

Sky High

I’m running with a theme here. As a post-script to my recent post on the “History of the Sky” project, I wanted to mention two more airy series of artworks: Yoko Ono’s “Sky TV,” from 1966 and James Turrell’s incredible “Skyspace” installations. Ono’s clever video piece was shown on a television inside a gallery, which [...]

April Uprising, 1973

On April 1, 1973, Yoko Ono and John Lennon held a press conference to tell the world about their imaginary place, a conceptual country called Nutopia, a place where the only law was the cosmic law. In those days the duo used their fame to create performance art, often based on the idealism that fueled [...]