{"id":275655,"date":"2025-11-06T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275655\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:21:14","slug":"music-of-the-mind-comes-to-the-broad-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275655\/","title":{"rendered":"Music of the Mind’ comes to The Broad in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Broad<\/a> is set to celebrate Yoko Ono<\/a>, the visionary artist, musician, and activist, with Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind. This major exhibition, which marks the artist\u2019s first solo museum showing in Southern California and is organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, will explore her seven-decade impact on contemporary culture.<\/p>\n

\n\tOpening in spring 2026, the exhibition will feature works that invite visitors to engage directly, transforming everyday actions into powerful expressions of peace and connection. On the East West Bank Plaza, The Broad\u2019s olive trees will host Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a significant installation (originally presented in Santa Monica in 1996), encouraging the public to contribute their personal wishes, embodying hope and community spirit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\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

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\t\t\t\t\tVisitors explore Yoko Ono\u2019s Add Colour (Refugee Boat) (1960\/2016) installed in Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Tate Modern, London, 2024<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOliver Cowling\/Courtesy of Tate<\/p>\n

\n\tOno was born in 1933 in Tokyo and relocated to New York City in 1956, where she soon became an integral part of the city\u2019s emerging experimental art community. She played a key role in the early development of conceptual art and was closely involved in the formation of Fluxus, the global avant-garde collective of artists and composers that included renowned figures like George Maciunas, La Monte Young, and John Cage. <\/p>\n

\n\tHer experiences as a young girl in the Japanese countryside, fleeing the horrors of World War II inspired the fundamental principles of her artmaking, where she relied on her imagination for nourishment and to maintain hope. From early in her career, Ono believed that artistic production was not limited to a studio, gallery, or museum, and could live in the minds, bodies, and hearts of everyone.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tYoko Ono in \u2018Half-a-Room,\u2019 1967, installed at \u2018Half-A-Wind\u2019 Show at Lisson Gallery, London, 1967<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClay Perry<\/p>\n

\n\t\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 said Sarah Loyer, Curator and Exhibitions Manager. \u201cHer foundational contributions to 1960s conceptualism and her lifelong commitment to participation have redefined what art can be and do. The throughline across her immense body of work, created across the United States, the UK, and Japan, is a sense of empowerment, both for herself and her audiences. The exhibition brings together a series of experiences that invite everyone to share in the act of creation and imagine change toward peace and equality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaterials from the artist\u2019s international campaigns for peace and displays of anti-war activism will also be on view, such as Acorn Event (1968) and Bed Peace (1969), projects done in collaboration with her late husband, John Lennon. In 1968, Ono and Lennon planted two acorns as a living sculpture for the Exhibition of British Sculpture at Coventry Cathedral in England. Soon after, they sent acorns to world leaders to plant in their gardens as symbols of world peace. In 1969, the couple staged their famous \u201cbed-in\u201d events in Amsterdam and Montreal, leveraging media attention to speak out against the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA week after their marriage, musicians John Lennon and Yoko Ono lay in their bed in the Presidential Suite of the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, 25th March 1969. The couple are staging a \u2018bed-in for peace\u2019 and intend to stay in bed for seven days \u2018as a protest against war and violence in the world\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKeystone\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tFilm and video feature heavily throughout the exhibition, including footage of Ono\u2019s most famous participatory performance work, Cut Piece, first performed at Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto, in 1964, in which the audience was invited to cut away pieces of her clothing while she sat silently onstage. Also on view will be FILM NO. 1 (\u201cMATCH\u201d) \/ Fluxfilm No. 14 (1966), capturing the striking of a match in slow motion; FILM NO. 4 (\u2018BOTTOMS\u2019) (1967), a work that was once banned by the British Board of Film Censors; and collaborative video works with Lennon such as FLY (1970-71) and Freedom (1970) that address women\u2019s liberation.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Cut Piece,\u2019 1964, performed in \u2018New Works of Yoko Ono,\u2019 Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, filmed by David and Albert Maysles, film, 16mm, black and white, and sound (stereo), 8 min, 27 sec<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYoko Ono<\/p>\n

\n\tContemporary installations created in the 2000s, such as Helmets (Pieces of Sky) (2001), invite audiences to envision new horizons through direct participation. In the work, guests are invited to take a puzzle piece from a series of overturned World War II-era German soldier helmets, suggesting that the pieces may come together to form a complete sky and that we are each part of a shared whole. In Ono\u2019s words, \u201cTake a piece of sky. Know that we are all part of each other.\u201d Collective humanity is also at the heart of the installation My Mommy is Beautiful (2004), where visitors can write thoughts about or pin photographs of their mothers. The work will accumulate personal stories throughout the exhibition\u2019s run, becoming a universal testimonial to the complexity of our relationships with our mothers.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoko Ono: Music of the Mind is organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with The Broad, Los Angeles, and curated by Juliet Bingham, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern. The Broad presentation is curated by Sarah Loyer, Curator and Exhibitions Manager.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exhibition will be on view May 23 through October 11, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broad is set to celebrate Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist, with Yoko Ono: Music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,146775,74463],"class_list":{"0":"post-275655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-the-broad","14":"tag-yoko-ono"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}