"One of the first things guests will see when they approach the museum during Ono's show will be an outdoor installation created using the Broad's olive trees from its outdoor plaza. These will be transformed into "wish trees" for the city - a nod to an installation that Ono first created in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica. Viewers will be invited to write wishes on tags and attach them to the branches."
""Yoko's work has never been bound by place or time, but this really feels like the right moment for a show like this in Los Angeles," Ono's studio director, Connor Monahan, wrote in an email. "Her work transforms audiences from observers into participants, helping to shape the works and the exhibition itself. That sense of agency and connection feels especially powerful right now, and I think Los Angeles, with its spirit of experimentation and openness, will really embrace that.""
Yoko Ono, age 92, will open 'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind' at the Broad in Los Angeles from May 23 to Oct. 11, 2026, in collaboration with Tate Modern. The exhibition will be interactive and transform the audience from observers into participants. An outdoor installation will convert the Broad's olive trees into wish trees where visitors can attach written wishes. Ono's practice has roots in the Fluxus movement and performance-based, participatory art. Her experiences in Tokyo during World War II informed a lifelong commitment to peace, love and cross-community understanding.
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