The Broad Saturday will open the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono, featuring decades of conceptual works centered on peace, participation and human connection.<\/p>\n
\u201cYoko Ono: Music of the Mind\u201d opens at 10 a.m. Saturday at the downtown Los Angeles museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the 1950s, Yoko Ono has worked across genres and mediums from music and performance to visual art, contending with a complex spectrum of human emotion,\u201d Sarah Loyer, curator and exhibitions manager of The Broad, said in a statement. \u201cHer foundational contributions to 1960s conceptualism and her lifelong commitment to participation have redefined what art can be and do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibition spans Ono\u2019s career and includes instruction-based artworks, films, installations and materials tied to her anti-war activism and collaborations with her late husband John Lennon.<\/p>\n
Among the featured works is \u201cWish Trees for Los Angeles,\u201d an outdoor installation inviting visitors to tie written wishes to olive tree branches on The Broad\u2019s plaza as part of a collective expression of hope.<\/p>\n
The exhibition also includes materials from Ono and Lennon\u2019s \u201cBed Peace\u201d anti-war campaign and contemporary participatory installations such as \u201cHelmets (Pieces of Sky)\u201d and \u201cAdd Colour (Refugee Boat).\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor more than seven decades, Yoko Ono has expanded the possibilities of art as a force for connection and change,\u201d said Joanne Heyler, founding director and president of The Broad. \u201cPoetic and bold, her emphasis on community and activism is especially timely, reminding us that imagination binds us together and can be a powerful source of collective strength.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Broad said the exhibition is designed to encourage audience participation and reflection through many of Ono\u2019s best-known conceptual works.<\/p>\n
Timed to the exhibition, the museum also announced a season of related programming including concerts, theatrical performances and public art installations across Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The accompanying programming will include performances of Ono\u2019s \u201cCut Piece\u201d and \u201cSky Piece to Jesus Christ\u201d at REDCAT, a concert titled \u201cYoko Only\u201d featuring musicians including Yo La Tengo and Yuka Honda, and a multimedia musical titled \u201cI Am Yoko\u201d currently in development.<\/p>\n
The Broad also announced outdoor \u201cSports Raves: Multiform\u201d events tied to the World Cup and a citywide billboard campaign displaying Ono peace messages such as \u201cTHINK PEACE,\u201d \u201cACT PEACE\u201d and \u201cPEACE is POWER.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibition will remain on view through Oct. 11.<\/p>\n
More information can be found at thebroad.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broad Saturday will open the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to artist, musician and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[27708,48,52,51,47,50,49,13035,1045,136804,136805],"class_list":["post-329462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-broad","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-major","tag-open","tag-retrospective","tag-yoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}