"CHICAGO - With her iconic long dark hair curtaining her demure countenance, Yoko Ono has been in my personal pantheon of women makers for most of my life. When I was a distraught teenager in a midwestern suburb, she was there - singing discordant arias from my bedroom stereo. Her siren call couldn't quite be deciphered, but, like a feminist signal from afar, it cut through the fog of oppressive cultural forces."
"At 92, Ono has settled into a quieter life in upstate New York on 600 rural acres, leaving her home in The Dakota on the Upper West Side, where her iconic presence embodied the fertile years of New York City's avant-garde. Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, originated at Tate Modern in London."
Yoko Ono's work invites viewer participation and centers collective hope against a backdrop of war, violence, racism, and sexism that has affected her life. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, originating at Tate Modern, presents a mostly chronological, visually black-and-white survey of instruction pieces, archival ephemera, videos, and interactive installations. Iconic participatory works like Wish Tree encourage public contribution and bear thousands of written wishes. The show emphasizes small artifacts—instruction cards, posters, photographs—and large interactive elements such as nail walls and chess tables, conveying an elegiac, communal engagement that links personal history with broader social trauma.
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