YOKO ONO.(art exhibition)(Brief Article)

Yoko Ono entered mainstream consciousness in the late '60s and was quickly branded an interloper. Never mind that by the time she met John Lennon in 1966 (at the opening of her solo show at the Indica Gallery in London), she had already caught the attention of John Cage and Ornette Coleman with her music; performed at Fluxus concerts and loft events organized with La Monte Young; and created a significant body of sculpture, mail art, and performance works, some of which had been staged at Carnegie Hall.

For masses of pop-music fans mourning the demise of the Beatles, Ono was simply a ...

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