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- DictionaryO·no, Yoko/ˈōnō/
- 1. (born 1933), US musician and artist, born in Japan. She married John Lennon in 1969 and collaborated with him on various experimental recordings.
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Ono was born in Tokyo City on February 18, 1933, to mother Isoko Ono (小野 磯子, Ono Isoko) (1911–1999) and father Eisuke Ono (小野 英輔, Ono Eisuke), a wealthy banker and former classical pianist.
Oct 26, 2019 · The subheadline read: “Yoko Ono—one woman show.” In response, many visitors trekked to the MoMA looking for Yoko Ono’s irreverent work; by that time, she’d garnered a large following for her vanguard conceptual art practice and her marriage to John Lennon of the Beatles.
May 30, 2024 · Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and musician who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s and who became internationally famous as the second wife and artistic partner of musician John Lennon.
Summary of Yoko Ono. Well before her famous partnership with John Lennon, Yoko Ono was the "High Priestess of the Happening" and a pioneer in performance art. Drawing from an array of sources from Zen Buddhism to Dada, her pieces were some of the movement's earliest and most daring.
May 22, 2024 · Throughout “Yoko Ono: Music for the Mind,” pleasure comes into the equation, with works conceived to make you smile, giggle, or, perhaps oddest of all in the context of the art world, just...
May 13, 2015 · art May 13, 2015. Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to Die. Why is it such a perennial youthful rite of passage to misunderstand, to underestimate, even to hate her? By Lindsay Zoladz. Yoko...
Aug 16, 2018 · What does Yoko mean? From the Japanese artist and widow of John Lennon Yoko Ono, a Yoko is a disparaging term for a woman seen as controlling, a hanger-on who stifles her mate’s achievements and stirs up conflict. It’s based on a belief that Yoko Ono caused the breakup of the Beatles.
Feb 18, 2017 · Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking. Well before her famous partnership with John Lennon, Yoko Ono was the “High Priestess of the Happening” and a pioneer in performance art.
Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family.
Yoko Ono was a skilled, boundary-breaking artist, musician, and filmmaker long before she married musician John Lennon. Classically trained in piano and voice as a child, Ono became the first woman admitted to the philosophy program at Gakushūin University in Tokyo, and she later studied writing.
