A myth about Yoko Ono is that she came from nowhere and became a destroyer of worlds. The truth is otherwise... Now ninety-one, she was born in 1933, in Tokyo.
Ono attended a progressive nursery school where the emphasis was on music: the children were taught perfect pitch and encouraged to listen to everyday sounds and translate them into musical notes.
In 1960, she rents a loft downtown and begins to host musical performances. Word gets around. John Cage plays. Marcel Duchamp is in the audience.
Ono is twenty-six, twenty-seven years old—a member of a loose band of international artists who operate under the name Fluxus, including Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik.
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