{"id":280741,"date":"2026-04-22T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:47:16","slug":"yoko-onos-first-museum-exhibition-in-socal-opens-this-may-featuring-an-outdoor-wish-tree-installation-john-lennon-collabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280741\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Ono’s First Museum Exhibition In SoCal Opens This May \u2013 Featuring An Outdoor Wish Tree Installation & John Lennon Collabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iconic artist and activist Yoko Ono\u2019s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California is about to open right here in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

Titled Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind and organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, the upcoming exhibition is set to open this May at The Broad Museum in downtown L.A.<\/a> It will include many of Ono\u2019s iconic works stretching back to the 1950s, including interactive pieces that describe actions for viewers to complete or reflect upon, and typescript drafts for her 1964 book\u00a0Grapefruit.<\/p>\n

The exhibition actually begins outside The Broad. The museum\u2019s olive trees<\/a> will become\u00a0Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a key installation for the exhibition that invites audiences to tie their own wishes to the tree branches \u201cin a living expression of hope in Los Angeles.\u201d The show is a nod to Ono\u2019s 1996 show at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n

Other installations include\u00a0My Mommy is Beautiful\u00a0(2004), where visitors can write thoughts or pin photographs of their mothers, several film and video projects, as well as anti-war works like\u00a0Acorn Event\u00a0(1968) and\u00a0Bed Peace\u00a0(1969), which were collaborations with her late husband, John Lennon.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoko\u2019s 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,\u201d Ono\u2019s studio director, Connor Monahan, told the L.A. Times<\/a> of the exhibition. \u201cHer 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind runs May 23 through October 11, 2026. Look out for a preview<\/a> of the space on Secret Los Angeles\u2018 social media accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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