Yoko Ono

Ono was born in Tokyo City on February 18, 1933, to mother {{nihongo|Isoko Ono|小野 磯子|Ono Isoko}} (1911–1999){{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.nl/names/isoko_ono|title=Isoko Ono|website=Myheritage.nl|access-date=2022-02-07|archive-date=January 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113093017/https://www.myheritage.nl/names/isoko_ono|url-status=live}} and father {{nihongo|Eisuke Ono|小野 英輔|Ono Eisuke}}, a wealthy banker and former classical pianist.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-mn0000521704/biography|title=Yoko Ono: biography|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130101749/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-mn0000521704/biography|archive-date=January 30, 2014}} Isoko's adoptive maternal grandfather {{nihongo|Zenjiro Yasuda|安田 善次郎|Yasuda Zenjirō}} was an affiliate of the Yasuda clan and zaibatsu. Eisuke came from a long line of samurai warrior-scholars. The kanji translation of Yōko ({{lang|ja|洋子}}) means "ocean child". Two weeks before Ono's birth, Eisuke was transferred to San Francisco, California, by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after, with Ono first meeting her father when she was two years old.{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono – Charts & Awards – Billboard Singles|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-p19685/charts-awards/billboard-singles|website=AllMusic|access-date=January 12, 2014}} Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

In 1937, the family was transferred back to Japan, and Ono enrolled at Tokyo's elite Gakushūin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan. Ono was enrolled in piano lessons from the age of 4, until the age of 12 or 13.{{harvnb|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=231}} She attended kabuki performances with her mother, who was trained in shamisen, koto, otsuzumi, kotsuzumi, nagauta, and could read Japanese musical scores.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

The family moved to New York City in 1940. The next year, Eisuke was transferred from New York City to Hanoi in French Indochina, and the family returned to Japan. Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the Mitsui family. She remained in Tokyo throughout World War II and the fire-bombing of March 9, 1945, during which she was sheltered with other family members in a special bunker in Tokyo's Azabu district, away from the heavy bombing. Ono later went to the Karuizawa mountain resort with members of her family.

Starvation was rampant in the destruction that followed the Tokyo bombings; the Ono family was forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow. Ono said it was during this period in her life that she developed her "aggressive" attitude and understanding of "outsider" status. Other stories tell of her mother bringing a large number of goods to the countryside, where they were bartered for food. In one anecdote, her mother traded a German-made sewing machine for {{convert|60|kg}} of rice to feed the family. During this time, Ono's father, who had been in Hanoi, was believed to be in a prisoner of war camp in China. Ono told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on October 16, 2007, that "He was in French Indochina, which is Vietnam actually{{nbsp}}... in Saigon. He was in a concentration camp."{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/16/exclusive_yoko_ono_on_the_new|title=EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Murder of John Lennon|last=Goodman|first=Amy|date=October 16, 2007|work=Democracy Now!|access-date=February 25, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222184454/http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/16/exclusive_yoko_ono_on_the_new|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}

After the war ended in 1945, Ono remained in Japan when her family moved to the United States and settled in Scarsdale, New York, an affluent town {{convert|25|mi}} north of midtown Manhattan. By April 1946, Gakushūin was reopened and Ono re-enrolled. The school, located near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, had not been damaged by the war, and Ono found herself a classmate of Prince Akihito, the future emperor of Japan. At 14 years old, she took up vocal training in lieder-singing.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Ono graduated from Gakushūin in 1951, and was accepted into the philosophy program of Gakushuin University as the first woman to enter the department. However, she left the school after two semesters.Murray Sayle, [http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op18.html "The Importance of Yoko Ono"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221150020/http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op18.html |date=December 21, 2007 }}, JPRI Occasional Paper No. 18, Japan Policy Research Institute, November 2000.

Ono joined her family in New York in September 1952,"New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925–1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HMN-WZL {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125104127/https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HMN-WZL |date=January 25, 2022 }} : March 2, 2021), Yoko Ono, 1952; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). enrolling at nearby Sarah Lawrence College. Ono's parents approved of her college choice, but disapproved of her lifestyle and chastised her for befriending people they felt were beneath her. In 1956, Ono left college to elope with Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi,{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono|publisher=biography.com|url=http://www.biography.com/people/yoko-ono-9542162|url-status=live|access-date=February 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216080529/http://www.biography.com/people/yoko-ono-9542162|archive-date=February 16, 2014}} a star in Tokyo's experimental community, then studying at Juilliard.{{Cite news|last=Farago|first=Jason|date=2015-06-25|title=Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/arts/music/hearing-yoko-ono-all-over-again.html|access-date=2021-11-07|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107054739/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/arts/music/hearing-yoko-ono-all-over-again.html|url-status=live}}

At Sarah Lawrence, Ono studied poetry with Alastair Reid, English literature with Kathryn Mansell, and music composition with the Viennese-trained André Singer. Ono has said that her heroes at this time were the twelve-tone composers Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. She said, "I was just fascinated with what they could do. I wrote some twelve-tone songs, then my music went into [an] area that my teacher felt was really a bit off track, and... he said, 'Well, look, there are people who are doing things like what you do, and they're called avant-garde.{{'"}} Singer introduced her to the work of Edgar Varèse, John Cage, and Henry Cowell. Ono left college and moved to New York in 1957, supporting herself through secretarial work and lessons in the traditional Japanese arts at the Japan Society.{{harvnb|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=232}}

Ono has often been associated with the Fluxus group, a loose association of Dada-inspired avant-garde artists which was founded in the early 1960s by Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas. Maciunas promoted her work, giving Ono her first solo exhibition at his AG Gallery in New York in 1961. He formally invited Ono to join Fluxus, but she declined because she wanted to remain independent.{{cite news|last=Newhall|first=Edith|date=October 2000|title=A Long and Winding Road|page=163|work=ARTnews}} However, she did collaborate with Maciunas,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=40-41}} Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, and the poet Jackson Mac Low, among others associated with the group.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=233}}

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Ono first met John Cage through his student Ichiyanagi Toshi, in Cage's experimental composition class at the New School for Social Research.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=65}} She was introduced to more of Cage's unconventional neo-Dadaism first hand, and via his New York City protégés Allan Kaprow, Brecht, Mac Low, Al Hansen and the poet Dick Higgins.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=233}}

After Cage finished teaching at the New School in the summer of 1960, Ono was determined to rent a place to present her works along with the work of other avant-garde artists in the city. She eventually found an inexpensive loft in downtown Manhattan at 112 Chambers Street and used the apartment as a studio and living space, also allowing composer La Monte Young to organize concerts in the loft.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=233}} They both held a series of events there from December 1960 through June 1961; the events were attended by people such as Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim.{{harvnb|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=21}} Ono and Young both claimed to have been the primary curator of these events,{{cite journal|last=Kotz|first=Liz|author-link=Liz Kotz|date=Winter 2001|title=Post-Cagean Aesthetics and the "Event" Score|journal=October|volume=95|pages=55–89 [56]|jstor=779200}} with Ono claiming to have been eventually pushed into a subsidiary role by Young.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=65}} Ono presented work only once during the series.

In 1961, Ono had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall (smaller than the "Main Hall"). This concert featured radical experimental music and performances.{{Cite web |last=Cherix |first=Christophe |title=MoMA Yoko Ono One Woman Show 1960 – 1971 |url=https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/publication_pdf/3218/MoMA_YokoOno_PREVIEW.pdf |website=Museum of Modern Art |pages=12–13}}

The Chambers Street series hosted some of Ono's earliest conceptual artwork, including Painting to Be Stepped On, a scrap of canvas on the floor that became a completed artwork as footprints were left on it. With that work, Ono suggested that a work of art no longer needed to be mounted on a wall and inaccessible. She showed this work and other instructional work again at Macunias's AG Gallery in July 1961. After Ono set a painting on fire at one performance, Cage advised her to treat the paper with flame retardant.{{cite web|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/yoko-010709.html|title=Yoko Ono to speak at Stanford, Stanford Report|last=Haven|first=Cynthia|date=December 19, 2008|publisher=Stanford University|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112012256/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/yoko-010709.html|archive-date=November 12, 2013}} She is credited for the album cover art for the album Nirvana Symphony by Toshiro Mayuzumi, released by Time Records in 1962.

After living apart for several years, Ono and Ichiyanagi filed for divorce in 1962. Ono returned home to live with her parents, and, suffering from clinical depression, was briefly placed into a Japanese mental institution.{{cite news|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/yoko-ono.html|title=Yoko Ono Biography|publisher=Biography Channel (UK)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213213142/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/yoko-ono.html|archive-date=December 13, 2013}}

On November 28, 1962, Ono married Anthony Cox, an American film producer and art promoter who had been instrumental in securing her release from the mental institution. Ono's second marriage was annulled on March 1, 1963, because she had neglected to finalize her divorce from Ichiyanagi. After finalizing that divorce, Cox and Ono married again on June 6, 1963. She gave birth to their daughter Kyoko Chan Cox two months later, on August 8, 1963.

The marriage quickly fell apart, but the couple continued working together for the sake of their joint careers. They performed at Tokyo's Sogetsu Hall, with Ono lying atop a piano played by John Cage. Soon, the couple returned to New York with Kyoko. In the early years of the marriage, Ono left most of Kyoko's parenting to Cox while she pursued her art full-time, with Cox also managing her publicity.

Ono had a second engagement at the Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965, in which she debuted Cut Piece.{{cite web|title=Ono, Yoko: Cut Piece|url=http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/cut-piece/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107032346/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/cut-piece/|archive-date=November 7, 2017|access-date=November 5, 2017|publisher=Medien Kunst Netz (Media Art Net)}} In September 1966, Ono visited London to meet artist and political activist Gustav Metzger's Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966. She was the only woman artist chosen to perform her own events and only one of two invited to speak.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=168}} She premiered The Fog Machine during her Concert of Music for the Mind at the Bluecoat Society of Arts in Liverpool, England in 1967.{{cite web|title=Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde: Timeline|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/centre-creative-universe-liverpool-and-avant-garde/centre|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302142908/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/centre-creative-universe-liverpool-and-avant-garde/centre|archive-date=March 2, 2014|access-date=January 10, 2015|publisher=tate.or.uk}}

Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and she married John Lennon later that same year. During a 1971 custody battle, Cox disappeared with their eight-year-old daughter. He won custody after successfully claiming that Ono was an unfit mother due to her drug use. Ono's ex-husband changed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and subsequently raised the girl in an organization known as the Church of the Living Word.{{cite book|last=Hockinson|first=Michael J.|title=The Ultimate Beatles Quiz Book|date=1992|publisher=Macmillan}} Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko for years, but to no avail. She would finally see Kyoko again in 1998.

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Ono's first contact with any member of the Beatles occurred when she visited Paul McCartney at his home in London to obtain a Lennon–McCartney song manuscript for a book John Cage was working on, Notations.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=246}} McCartney declined to give her any of his manuscripts but suggested that Lennon might oblige.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=246}} Lennon later gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word".{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=272}}

Ono and Lennon first met on November 7, 1966, at the Indica Gallery in London, where she was preparing Unfinished Paintings, her conceptual art exhibit about interactive painting and sculpture. They were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=682}} One piece, Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting, had a ladder painted white with a magnifying glass at the top. When Lennon climbed the ladder, he looked through the magnifying glass and was able to read the word YES which was written in miniature. He greatly enjoyed this experience as it was a positive message, whereas most concept art he encountered at the time was anti-everything.{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/john-lennon30.htm|title=John Lennon: John Lennon Meets Yoko Ono|last=Buskin|first=Richard|publisher=HowStuffWorks.com|access-date=April 17, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427092641/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/john-lennon30.htm|archive-date=April 27, 2014}}

Lennon was also intrigued by Ono's Hammer a Nail where viewers were invited to hammer a nail into a wooden board painted white. Although the exhibition had not yet opened, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono feigned not knowing of the Beatles (even as she had gone to see Paul McCartney asking for a Beatle song score), but relented on the condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."{{cite book|last=Sheff|first=David|title=All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|year=2000}}

In a 2002 interview, Ono said, "I was very attracted to him. It was a really strange situation." Ono started writing to Lennon, sending him her conceptual artworks, and soon the two began corresponding. In September 1967, Lennon sponsored Ono's solo Half-A-Wind Show, at Lisson Gallery in London. When Lennon's wife Cynthia asked for an explanation of why Ono was telephoning them at home, he told her that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit".{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=683}}

In early 1968, while the Beatles were making their visit to India, Lennon wrote the song "Julia" and included a reference to Ono: "Ocean child calls me", referring to the translation of Yoko's Japanese spelling.{{cite book|chapter="Brought to Book", 31 July 1971 interview with Alan Smith|title=Uncut Presents NME Originals Beatles-The Solo Years|year=2010|page=42}} In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording a selection of avant-garde tape loops,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/yoko-ono/biography|title=Yoko Ono: Biography|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=February 5, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410142417/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/yoko-ono/biography#ixzz2sVEUGotR|archive-date=April 10, 2014}} after which, he said, they "made love at dawn".Two Virgins liner notes, Apple, SAPCOR 2 The recordings made by the two during this session ultimately became their first collaborative album, the musique concrete work Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins. When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi."Lennon, Cynthia, A Twist of Lennon, Avon, {{ISBN|978-0-380-45450-1}}, 1978, p. 183

On September 24 and 25, 1968, Lennon wrote and recorded "Happiness Is a Warm Gun",Spizer, Bruce, The Beatles on Apple Records, 498 Productions, {{ISBN|0-9662649-4-0}}, 2003, pp. 107–108 which contains sexual references to Ono. Ono became pregnant, but had a miscarriage of a male child on November 21, 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=510}}{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=800}} On December 12, 1968, Lennon and Ono participated in the BBC documentary about The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, along with several other high-profile musicians. Lennon performed his Beatles composition "Yer Blues" towards the end, with an improvised vocal performance by Ono rounding out the set.{{Cite magazine|last=Martoccio|first=Angie|date=November 2, 2020|title=Watch the Rolling Stones Tear Through 'Sympathy for the Devil' in 1968|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rolling-stones-sympathy-for-the-devil-rock-and-roll-circus-1084884/|access-date=August 7, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807021110/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rolling-stones-sympathy-for-the-devil-rock-and-roll-circus-1084884/|url-status=live}} The film would not be released until 1996, due to the death of The Rolling Stones' founding member Brian Jones a few months after it was shot.

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During the final two years of the Beatles, Lennon and Ono created and attended public protests against the Vietnam War. They collaborated on a series of avant-garde recordings, beginning in 1968 with Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, which notoriously featured an unretouched image of the two artists nude on the front cover. The same year, the couple contributed an experimental sound collage to The Beatles' self-titled "White Album" called "Revolution 9", with Ono contributing additional vocals to "Birthday",{{cite magazine|last=Gibron|first=Bill|date=December 21, 1968|title=An in-depth Look at the Songs on Side-Three|url=http://www.thewhitealbumproject.com/songs/side-three/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113003559/http://www.thewhitealbumproject.com/songs/side-three/|archive-date=January 13, 2014|access-date=February 1, 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone|publisher=The White Album Project}} and one lead vocal line on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", marking the only occasion in a Beatles recording in which a woman sings lead vocals.Lewisohn, Mark, 2000, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, London: Hamlyn, {{ISBN|978-0-600-60033-6}}, p. 284

On March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married at the registry office in Gibraltar and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam, campaigning with a week-long bed-in for peace. They planned another bed-in in the US, but were denied entry to the country.Kruse, Robert J. II, "Geographies of John and Yoko's 1969 Campaign for Peace: An Intersection of Celebrity, Space, Art, and Activism", in Johansson, Ola, Bell, Thomas L., eds., Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music, Ashgate, {{ISBN|978-0-7546-7577-8}}, 2009, p. 16 They held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded "Give Peace a Chance".{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Norman|title=John Lennon: The Life|year=2008|publisher=Doubleday Canada|page=608|isbn=978-0-385-66100-3}}{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=276}} Lennon later stated his regrets about feeling "guilty enough to give McCartney credit as co-writer on my first independent single instead of giving it to Yoko, who had actually written it with me."Norman, Philip, John Lennon: The Life, 2008, Doubleday Canada, p. 608, {{ISBN|978-0-385-66100-3}} The couple often combined advocacy with performance art, such as in "bagism", first introduced during a Vienna press conference, where they satirised prejudice and stereotyping by wearing a bag over their entire bodies. Lennon detailed this period in the Beatles' song "The Ballad of John and Yoko".Coleman, Ray, Lennon: The Definitive Biography, 1992, p. 550

During the Amsterdam Bed-In press conference, Yoko also earned controversy in the Jewish community for saying during the press conference that, "If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would approach him and become his girlfriend. After 10 days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking. This world needs communication. And making love is a great way of communicating."{{cite web|url=http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/yoko-ono-if-only-hitler-had-sex-with-jewish-women/|title=Yoko Ono: If Only Hitler Had Sex With Jewish Women|first=Jonathan|last=Mark|website=The Times of Israel|access-date=October 5, 2019|archive-date=July 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707222206/https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/yoko-ono-if-only-hitler-had-sex-with-jewish-women/|url-status=dead}}

Lennon changed his name by deed poll on April 22, 1969, switching out Winston for Ono as a middle name. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon after that, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon.Coleman, Ray, Lennon: The Definitive Biography, 1984b, p. 64 The couple settled at Tittenhurst Park at Sunninghill, Berkshire, in southeast England.Norman, Philip, John Lennon The Life, Hammersmith, England: Harper Collins, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-00-719741-5}}, p. 615 et seq When Ono was injured in a car crash, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on the Beatles' last recorded album, Abbey Road.Emerick, Massey, 2006, pp. 279–80

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After "The Ballad of John and Yoko", Lennon and Ono decided it would be better to form their own band to release their newer, more personally representative art work, rather than release the sound material as the Beatles.McDonald, Ian, Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed., Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-55652-733-3}}, 1556527330 To this end they formed the Plastic Ono Band, a name based on their 1968 Fluxus conceptual art project of the same name.John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band book by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, October 2020, pp. 17-19 Plastic Ono Band was first conceived of by Ono in 1967 as an idea for an art exhibition in BerlinJohn & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band book by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, October 2020, p. 13 but The Plastic Ono Band was first physically realized in 1968 as a multi-media machine maquette by John Lennon, also called The Plastic Ono Band. In 1968, Lennon and Ono began a personal and artistic relationship in which they decided to credit their future endeavours as work of The Plastic Ono Band. Under that name Ono and Lennon collaborated on several art exhibitions, concerts, happenings and experimental noise music recording projects, including a sound and light installation in the Apple press office that consisted of four perspex columns, each representing a member of the Beatles, with one holding a tape recorder and amplifier, the second a closed-circuit TV and camera, the third a record player and amplifier, and the fourth a miniature light show and loud speaker. Soon after The Plastic Ono Band name was used in recording and releasing somewhat more standard rock-based albums.

In July 1969, Lennon's first solo single, "Give Peace a Chance" (backed by Ono's "Remember Love") was the first release to be credited to the Plastic Ono Band. It was followed in October by "Cold Turkey" (backed by Ono's "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)"). The singles were followed in December by the group's first album, Live Peace in Toronto 1969, which had been recorded live at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in September. This incarnation of the group also consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White. The first half of their performance consisted of rock standards. During the second half, Ono took to the microphone and performed two original feedback-driven compositions, "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John (Let's Hope for Peace)",{{cite web|url=http://www.jpgr.co.uk/core2001.html|last=Calkin|first=Graham|title=Live Peace in Toronto 1969|publisher=Jpgr.co.uk|access-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009190538/http://www.jpgr.co.uk/core2001.html|archive-date=October 9, 2014}}Blaney, John (2005). John Lennon: Listen to This Book (illustrated ed.). [S.l.]: Paper Jukebox. p. 42. {{ISBN|978-0-9544528-1-0}}. constituting the entirety of the second half of the live album.

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Ono released her first solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band in 1970, as a companion piece to Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The two albums also had companion covers: Ono's featured a photo of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's a photo of him leaning on Ono. Her album included raw, harsh vocals, which bore a similarity with sounds in nature (especially those made by animals) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players. Performers included Ornette Coleman, other renowned free jazz performers, and Ringo Starr. Some songs on the album consisted of wordless vocalizations, in a style that would influence Meredith Monk{{cite news|url=http://www.makers.com/blog/women-music-trailblazing-female-singers-songwriters-and-musicians/6|title=Women in Music: Trailblazing Female Singers, Songwriters and Musicians|publisher=makers.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203025326/http://www.makers.com/blog/women-music-trailblazing-female-singers-songwriters-and-musicians/6|archive-date=February 3, 2014}} and other musical artists who have used screams and vocal noise instead of words. The album reached No. 182 on the US charts.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-mw0000026229/awards|title=Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Awards|publisher=AllMusic}}

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When Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore (then the Filmore West) on June 5, 1971, Ono joined them.Liner notes to Disc 2, Sometime in New York City album. Later that year, she released Fly, a double album. In it, she explored slightly more conventional psychedelic rock with tracks including "Midsummer New York" and "Mind Train", in addition to a number of Fluxus experiments. She also received minor airplay with the ballad "Mrs. Lennon". The track "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" was an ode to Ono's missing daughter,{{cite book|title=The Beatles: An illustrated record|page=83|year=1978|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=0-517-53367-7|author1=Carr, R.|author2=Tyler, T.|name-list-style=amp}} and featured Eric Clapton on guitar. In 1971, while studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Mallorca, Spain, Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox accused Ono of abducting their daughter Kyoko from the kindergarten. They reached an out-of-court agreement and the charges were dismissed. Cox eventually moved away with Kyoko.Kyoko (2018), documentary by Marcos Cabotá. Far Visuals. [https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film596058.html Summary at FilmAffinity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301201030/https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film596058.html |date=March 1, 2022}} Ono would not see her daughter until 1998. During this time, she wrote "Don't Worry Kyoko", which also appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace in Toronto 1969, in addition to Fly. Kyoko is also referenced in the first line of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" when Yoko whispers "Happy Christmas, Kyoko", followed by Lennon whispering, "Happy Christmas, Julian."Jackson, Andrew Grant. Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, July 2012, p. 50. The song reached No. 4 in the UK, where its release was delayed until 1972, and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart. Originally a protest song about the Vietnam War, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has since become a Christmas standard.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-christmas%21-the-essential-mw0000797209|title=Various Artists: Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Essential|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 14, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205062218/http://www.allmusic.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-christmas%21-the-essential-mw0000797209|archive-date=February 5, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/happy-xmas-war-is-over-mt0029822393|title=Happy Xmas (War Is Over): Overview|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 14, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831223449/http://www.allmusic.com/song/happy-xmas-war-is-over-mt0029822393|archive-date=August 31, 2016}} That August the couple appeared together at a benefit in Madison Square Garden with Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder, and Sha Na Na for mentally disabled children organized by WABC-TV's Geraldo Rivera.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=320}}

In a 2018 issue of Portland Magazine, editor Colin W. Sargent writes of interviewing Yoko while she was visiting Portland, Maine, in 2005. She spoke of driving along the coast with Lennon and dreamed of buying a house in Maine. "We talked excitedly in the car. We were looking for a house on the water… We did examine the place! We kept driving north along the water until I don't really remember the name of the town. We went quite a ways up, actually, because it was so beautiful."{{cite web|author=Sargent, Colin W.|title=Imagine|publisher=Portland Monthly|date=April 2018|url=https://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2018/02/imagine/|access-date=March 12, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308214615/https://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2018/02/imagine/|url-status=live}}

In 1973, Ono recorded a single, "Joseijoi Banzai, Parts 1 and 2" with musicians billed as the Plastic Ono Band and Elephants Memory and released it only in Japan. She cheered feminism by combining lyrics inspired by Japanese war songs with Pop rhythms, signalling a new direction.Midori Yoshimoto, “Fluxus and Japanese Women Artists,” in Japanese Women Artists in Avant-garde Movements, 1950–1975, exh. cat. (Tochigi, Japan: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 2005). p. 198.

File:1 West 72nd Street (The Dakota) by David Shankbone.jpg, Ono's residence from 1973 to 2023]]After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to Manhattan to escape tabloid racism towards Ono.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/02/john-lennon-radical-left-tariq-ali|title=John Lennon's power for the people|date=February 2, 2010|last=Ali|first=Tariq|newspaper=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109115346/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/02/john-lennon-radical-left-tariq-ali|archive-date=January 9, 2017}} Their relationship became strained because Lennon was facing deportation due to drug charges that had been filed against him in England, and because of Ono's separation from her daughter. The couple separated in July 1973, with Ono pursuing her career and Lennon living between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang; Ono had given her blessing to Lennon and Pang's relationship.{{cite book|first=Geoffrey Giuliano|last=Brenda Giuliano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVpXvJn0ZZIC&q=%22may+pang%22&pg=RA2-PA260|title=Press Release Interview with May Pang|access-date=June 9, 2011|isbn=978-0-7119-6470-9|year=1998|publisher=Omnibus Press |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101162507/http://books.google.com/books?id=kVpXvJn0ZZIC&pg=RA2-PA260&vq=Pang&dq=%22may+pang%22#PRA2-PA213,M1|archive-date=January 1, 2014}}{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=698-99}}

By December 1974, Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together, and he refused to accept Ono's phone calls. The next month, Lennon agreed to meet Ono, who claimed to have found a cure for smoking. After the meeting, Lennon failed to return home or call Pang. When she telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment with Pang; he was stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress, which did not happen.{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=700-01}}

Ono and Lennon's son, Sean, was born on October 9, 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday. Following the birth of Sean, both Lennon and Ono took a hiatus from the music industry, with Lennon becoming a stay-at-home dad to care for his infant son. Sean has followed in his parents' footsteps with a career in music; he performs solo work, works with Ono and formed bands as, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger and The Claypool Lennon Delirium.{{cite web |last=H |first=Erika |title=Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl to release debut as Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger; win award for worst band name since Dogs Die in Hot Cars |url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/sean-ono-lennon-and-charlotte-kemp-muhl-release-debut-ghost-saber-tooth-tiger-win-award-worst-b |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731134037/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/sean-ono-lennon-and-charlotte-kemp-muhl-release-debut-ghost-saber-tooth-tiger-win-award-worst-b |archive-date=July 31, 2010 |access-date=September 28, 2011 |publisher=tinymixtapes.com}}

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File:Lennons by Jack Mitchell.jpgIn early 1980, Lennon heard Lene Lovich and the B-52's' "Rock Lobster" while on vacation in Bermuda. The latter reminded him of Ono's musical sound and he took this as an indication that she had reached the mainstream{{cite magazine|date=November 16, 1989|title=#29: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-eighties-20110418/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-double-fantasy-20110322|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203182000/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-eighties-20110418/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-double-fantasy-20110322|archive-date=February 3, 2014|access-date=April 18, 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone}} (the band had in fact been influenced by Ono).{{cite news|last=Wiskirchen|first=Julie|title=The B-52s 25th Anniversary Concert with Chicks on Speed|publisher=Ape Culture|url=http://www.apeculture.com/music/b52s.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=April 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404163346/http://www.apeculture.com/music/b52s.htm|archive-date=April 4, 2012}} Ono and Lennon began trading songs over the phone with each other, quickly accumulating enough material to record. The emerging album was structured as a dialogue, and was to be credited to John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a duo. It would also mark the return of Lennon to the public eye after a five-year absence, as well as a public reconciliation of Ono and Lennon.

Double Fantasy was released on November 17, 1980, and received tepid initial reviews, with much of the criticism centering on the idealization of Lennon and Ono's marriage and supposed domestic bliss. However, the reception and the legacy of the album would be forever linked with what happened just weeks after its release.

On the evening of December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were at the Record Plant Studio and working on Ono's song "Walking on Thin Ice". When they returned to their Manhattan home The Dakota, Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, who had been stalking Lennon for two months. Yoko cradled the dying Lennon in her arms, and for a time afterward, lived in constant fear of her own and her son Sean's assassination.

After John's death, the interior decorator Sam Havadtoy moved in to support her.{{Cite web |url=https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/yoko-ono |title=Yoko Ono |access-date=November 26, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524084054/https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/yoko-ono |url-status=live }} "Walking on Thin Ice (For John)" was released as a single less than a month later, and became Ono's first chart success as a solo artist, peaking at No. 58 and gaining significant underground airplay. Double Fantasy received an instant critical reappraisal, eventually becoming a landmark album of the 1980s, and winning Ono the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards.

In 1981, she released the album Season of Glass, which featured the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to a half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background. This photograph sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for about $13,000. In the liner notes to Season of Glass, Ono explained that the album was not dedicated to Lennon because "he would have been offended—he was one of us." The album received highly favorable reviews and reflected the public's mood after Lennon's assassination.[https://www.allmusic.com/album/season-of-glass-r46036 AllMusic Season of Glass Review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218232922/http://www.allmusic.com/album/season-of-glass-r46036|date=December 18, 2010}}. AllMusic. Retrieved January 1, 2012.{{cite news|last=Trebay|first=Guy|date=April 6, 2011|title=A Collector of People Along With Art|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/fashion/07GREEN.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911114711/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/fashion/07GREEN.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|archive-date=September 11, 2017}}

In 1982, she released It's Alright. The cover featured Ono in her wrap-around sunglasses, looking towards the sun, while on the back the ghost of Lennon looks over her and their son. The album scored minor chart success{{cite web|date=February 7, 2014|title=Yoko Ono, It's Alright (I See Rainbows), Billboard Albums|website=AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/its-alright-i-see-rainbows-mw0000027137/awards}} and airplay with the single "Never Say Goodbye".{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono: Biography|url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/yoko-ono/321559|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140412054213/https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/yoko-ono/id321559|archive-date=April 12, 2014|publisher=iTunes Store}}

In 1984, a tribute album titled Every Man Has a Woman was released, featuring a selection of songs written by Ono performed by artists such as Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, and Harry Nilsson.{{cite web|title=Various Artists, Every Man Has a Woman, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/every-man-has-a-woman-mw0000193725/credits|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908235717/http://www.allmusic.com/album/every-man-has-a-woman-mw0000193725/credits|archive-date=September 8, 2016|access-date=February 7, 2014|publisher=AllMusic}} Later that year, Ono and Lennon's final album, Milk and Honey, was released as a mixture of unfinished Lennon recordings from the Double Fantasy sessions, and new Ono recordings.{{cite web|title=John Lennon/Yoko Ono: Milk and Honey, Overview|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/milk-and-honey-mw0000650408|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719135339/http://www.allmusic.com/album/milk-and-honey-mw0000650408|archive-date=July 19, 2017|publisher=AllMusic}} It peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 11 in the U.S.,{{cite web|title=John Lennon/Yoko Ono: Milk and Honey, Awards|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/milk-and-honey-mw0000650408/awards|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626215142/http://www.allmusic.com/album/milk-and-honey-mw0000650408/awards|archive-date=June 26, 2013|publisher=AllMusic}} going gold in both countries as well as in Canada.{{cite web|title=John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Searchable Database|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Lennon%22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140807/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Lennon%22|archive-date=September 24, 2015|publisher=riaa.com}} p. 3.{{cite web|title=Searchable Database|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards/search.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115055129/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx|archive-date=January 15, 2013|publisher=bpi.co.uk}}{{cite web|title=Gold Platinum Database: John Lennon|url=http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=John%20Lennon&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225041920/http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=|archive-date=February 25, 2012|access-date=July 12, 2011|publisher=Canadian Recording Industry Association}}

Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park, directly across from the Dakota, which was the scene of the murder. It was officially dedicated on October 9, 1985, which would have been his 45th birthday.{{cite web | last=Dowd | first=Maureen | title=STRAWBERRY FIELDS 'GARDEN OF PEACE' OPENS TODAY | website=The New York Times | date=October 9, 1985 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/09/nyregion/strawberry-fields-garden-of-peace-opens-today.html | access-date=April 14, 2019 | archive-date=April 14, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414141658/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/09/nyregion/strawberry-fields-garden-of-peace-opens-today.html | url-status=live }}

Ono's final album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album that she intended as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. On the cover, a warm, smiling Ono holds the Earth in the palm of her hand. Starpeace became Ono's most successful non-Lennon effort. The single "Hell in Paradise" was a hit, reaching No. 16 on the US dance charts and No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the video, directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński received major airplay on MTV and won "Most Innovative Video" at Billboard Music Video Awards in 1986.{{cite web|title=ZBIG RYBCZYNSKI::FILM AND VIDEO AWARD|url=http://www.zbigvision.com/zbigsawards.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723194533/http://www.zbigvision.com/zbigsawards.html|archive-date=July 23, 2011|access-date=July 26, 2011|work=ZBIG RYBCZYNSKI}}

In 1986, Ono set out on a goodwill world tour for Starpeace, primarily visiting Eastern European countries.

In 1990, Ono collaborated with music consultant Jeff Pollack to honor what would have been Lennon's 50th birthday with a worldwide broadcast of "Imagine". Over 1,000 stations in over 50 countries participated in the simultaneous broadcast. Ono felt the timing was perfect, considering the escalating conflicts in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Germany.{{cite news|title=Worldwide Broadcast Planned in Honor of Lennon's 50th Birthday|newspaper=The Tufts Daily|date=October 5, 1990|page=3}}

Ono went on a musical hiatus following the release of Starpeace, until she signed with Rykodisc in 1992 and released the comprehensive six-disc box set Onobox. The box set included remastered highlights from Ono's solo albums and previously unreleased material from the 1974 "lost weekend" sessions.{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono: Onobox|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/onobox-mw0000277368|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213131648/http://www.allmusic.com/album/onobox-mw0000277368|archive-date=December 13, 2014|publisher=AllMusic}} She also released a one-disc sampler of highlights from Onobox, simply titled Walking on Thin Ice.{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono": Walking on Thin Ice|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/walking-on-thin-ice-mw0000273502|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601225850/http://www.allmusic.com/album/walking-on-thin-ice-mw0000273502|archive-date=June 1, 2013|publisher=AllMusic}} That year, she sat down for an extensive interview with music journalist Mark Kemp for a cover story in the alternative music magazine Option. The story took a revisionist look at Ono's music for a new generation of fans more accepting of her role as a pioneer in the blending of pop and avant-garde music.{{cite magazine|last=Kemp|first=Mark|date=July–August 1992|title=She Who Laughs Last: Yoko Ono Reconsidered|magazine=Option|pages=74–81}}

In 1994, Ono produced her own off-Broadway musical entitled New York Rock, which featured Broadway renditions of her songs.{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono, New York Rock [Original Cast]|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/new-york-rock-original-cast-mw0000124969|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027090204/http://www.allmusic.com/album/new-york-rock-original-cast-mw0000124969|archive-date=October 27, 2015|access-date=November 7, 2014|publisher=AllMusic}}

In 1995, Ono released Rising, a collaboration with her son Sean and his then-band, Ima. Rising spawned a world tour that traveled through Europe, Japan, and the United States. The following year, she collaborated with various alternative rock musicians for an EP entitled Rising Mixes.{{cite magazine|date=September 18, 2009|title=The Ballads (and Uptempo Songs) of Yoko: Ask Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/267333/ask-billboard-madonna-yoko-ono-gospel|url-status=live|magazine=Billboard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225021525/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/267333/ask-billboard-madonna-yoko-ono-gospel|archive-date=December 25, 2013|access-date=February 7, 2014}} Guest remixers of Rising material included Cibo Matto, Ween, Tricky, and Thurston Moore.{{cite web|title=Ima/Yoko Ono: Rising Mixes|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rising-mixes-mw0000184569|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203032441/http://www.allmusic.com/album/rising-mixes-mw0000184569|archive-date=February 3, 2014|publisher=AllMusic}}

In 1997, Rykodisc reissued Ono's catalog of solo recordings on CD, from Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band through Starpeace. Ono and her engineer Rob Stevens personally remastered the audio, and various bonus tracks were added, including outtakes, demos, and live cuts.{{cite news|last=Kaufman|first=Gil|date=February 19, 1997|title=Ready Or Not: Yoko Ono Albums To Be Reissued|publisher=MTV|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/509113/ready-not-yoko-ono-albums-be-reissued.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427092908/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/509113/ready-not-yoko-ono-albums-be-reissued.jhtml|archive-date=April 27, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band|year=1997 |url=http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Plastic-Ono-Band-Yoko-Ono-Plastic-Ono-Band/release/592362|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706130206/http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Plastic-Ono-Band-Yoko-Ono-Plastic-Ono-Band/release/592362|archive-date=July 6, 2013|publisher=Discogs}}{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono – Starpeace|year=1997 |url=http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Starpeace/release/1105426|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708080544/http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Starpeace/release/1105426|archive-date=July 8, 2013|publisher=Discogs}} In the same year, Ono and the BMI Foundation established an annual music competition program for songwriters of contemporary musical genres to honor John Lennon's memory and his large creative legacy.{{cite web|title=BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarships|url=http://bmifoundation.org/programs/info/john_lennon_scholarships|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215191638/http://bmifoundation.org/programs/info/john_lennon_scholarships|archive-date=February 15, 2017|access-date=February 2, 2017}} Over $350,000 has been given through BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarships to talented young musicians in the United States, making it one of the most respected awards for emerging songwriters.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In 2000, Ono founded the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan, which housed over 130 pieces of Lennon and Beatles memorabilia from Ono's private collection. The museum closed in 2010.

Ono's feminist concept album Blueprint for a Sunrise was released in 2001.{{cite news|date=October 25, 2001|title=Yoko Ono: Blueprint for a Sunrise|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6010-blueprint-for-a-sunrise/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522062918/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6010-blueprint-for-a-sunrise/|archive-date=May 22, 2012}} A month after the 9/11 attacks, Ono organized the concert "Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music" at Radio City Music Hall. Hosted by the actor Kevin Spacey and featuring Lou Reed, Cyndi Lauper and Nelly Furtado, it raised money for September 11 relief efforts and aired on TNT and the WB.{{cite news|title=Come Together: A Night For John Lennon's Words & Music, Dedicated To New York City & {{sic|It|'s|nolink=y}} People (2001)|publisher=tntdrama.com|url=http://www.tntdrama.com/title/?oid=341134|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426232224/http://www.tntdrama.com/title/?oid=341134|archive-date=April 26, 2014}}

File:Mikhail_Tarasov_%26_Yoko_Ono.jpg and Yoko Ono at BMI, NYC, in 2004.]]In 2002, Ono joined the B-52's in New York for their 25th anniversary concerts; she came out for the encore and performed "Rock Lobster" with the band. In March 2002, she was present with Cherie Blair at the unveiling of a seven-foot statue of Lennon to mark the renaming of Liverpool airport to Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Beginning in 2003, some DJs remixed other Ono songs for dance clubs. For the remix project, she dropped her first name and became known simply as "ONO", in response to the "Oh, no!" jokes that dogged her throughout her career. Ono had great success with new versions of "Walking on Thin Ice", remixed by top DJs and dance artists including Pet Shop Boys,{{cite magazine|last=Locker|first=Melissa|date=December 19, 2013|title=Q&A: Yoko Ono on Her Rebirth As A Dance-Music Star|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/19/yoko-ono-on-her-rebirth-as-a-dance-music-star/|url-status=live|magazine=Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416152346/http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/19/yoko-ono-on-her-rebirth-as-a-dance-music-star/|archive-date=April 16, 2014}} Orange Factory,{{cite news|title=ONO-Hell in Paradise|publisher=discogs|url=http://www.discogs.com/Ono-Hell-In-Paradise/release/3753125|url-status=live|access-date=April 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310000729/https://www.discogs.com/Ono-Hell-In-Paradise/release/3753125|archive-date=March 10, 2016}} Peter Rauhofer, and Danny Tenaglia.{{cite web|title=ONO – Walking on Thin Ice 2013 (Danny Tenaglia and Sebastian Dub)|url=https://soundcloud.com/yokoono/ono-walking-on-thin-ice-3|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419014547/https://soundcloud.com/yokoono/ono-walking-on-thin-ice-3|archive-date=April 19, 2014|access-date=April 18, 2014|publisher=Soundcloud}} In April 2003, Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes) was rated number 1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, gaining Ono her first no. 1 hit. She would have a second no. 1 hit on the same chart in November 2004 with "Everyman... Everywoman...", a reworking of her song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him".

During the Liverpool Biennial in 2004, Ono flooded the city with two images on banners, bags, stickers, postcards, flyers, posters and badges: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same model's vulva. During her stay in Lennon's city of birth, she said she was "astounded" by the city's renaissance.{{cite web|date=September 18, 2004|title=Yoko Ono: I'm astounded by Liverpool's renaissance|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Yoko+Ono%3A+I%27m+astounded+by+Liverpool%27s+renaissance.-a0122323351|work=Daily Post via the Free Library|access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-date=November 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111234750/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Yoko+Ono%3A+I%27m+astounded+by+Liverpool%27s+renaissance.-a0122323351|url-status=live}} The piece, titled My Mummy Was Beautiful, was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when he was a teenager.{{cite news|last=Coslett|first=Paul|title=But Is It Art?|publisher=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2004/09/16/biennial_breasts_feature.shtml|url-status=live|access-date=February 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501150614/http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2004/09/16/biennial_breasts_feature.shtml|archive-date=May 1, 2014}} According to Ono, the work was meant to be innocent, not shocking; she was attempting to replicate the experience of a baby looking up at its mother's body, those parts of the mother's body being a child's introduction to humanity.{{cite news|year=2006|title=Interview with Michele Robecchi|work=Contemporary|issue=84|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/2664|url-status=dead|access-date=April 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427163620/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/2664|archive-date=April 27, 2014}} via ImaginePeace.com

Ono performed at the opening ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy,{{cite news|last=Elfman|first=Doug|date=February 22, 2006|title=Agony of defeat: Coverage of "oh no" Games seems lackluster to callous generation of American viewers|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|publisher=Sun-Times Media|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FF1139BB6CE7E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-date=May 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518233810/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FF1139BB6CE7E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=live}} Like many of the other performers during the ceremony, she wore white to symbolize the snow of winter. She read a free verse poem calling for world peace{{cite news|date=February 10, 2006|title=Olympics Open in Spectacular Style|work=CNN|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/02/10/olympics.ceremony/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418233826/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/02/10/olympics.ceremony/|archive-date=April 18, 2014}} as an introduction to Peter Gabriel's performance of "Imagine".{{cite web|date=February 10, 2006|title=Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE at the opening ceremony for The 2006 XX Winter Olympic Games|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7251|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427163932/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7251|archive-date=April 27, 2014|access-date=April 27, 2014|publisher=ImaginePeace.com}}{{cite magazine|date=February 10, 2006|title=Gabriel, Pavarotti Participate in Surreal Olympic Opening|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/59716/gabriel-pavarotti-participate-in-surreal-olympic-opening|url-status=live|magazine=Billboard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916230925/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/59716/gabriel-pavarotti-participate-in-surreal-olympic-opening|archive-date=September 16, 2014}}

On December 13, 2006, one of Ono's bodyguards was arrested after he was allegedly taped trying to extort $2 million from her. The tapes revealed that he threatened to release private conversations and photographs.{{cite news|last=Pineda|first=Nina|date=December 13, 2006|title=Yoko Ono bodyguard accused of extortion|work=Eyewitness News|publisher=WABC-TV|url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=4849256|url-status=dead|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629054714/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=4849256|archive-date=June 29, 2011}} His bail was revoked, and he pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted grand larceny.{{cite news|date=December 19, 2006|title=Driver's Lawyer Calls Yoko Ono Abusive|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/nyregion/19cnd-driver.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911161545/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/nyregion/19cnd-driver.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0|archive-date=September 11, 2017}} On February 16, 2007, a deal was reached where extortion charges were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in the third degree, a felony, and was sentenced to the 60 days that he had already spent in jail. After reading an unapologetic statement, he was released to immigration officials because he had also been found guilty of overstaying his business visa.{{cite news|date=February 16, 2007|title=Deal Ends Case Against Yoko Ono's Chauffeur|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/nyregion/17yoko.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115959/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/nyregion/17yoko.html|archive-date=September 11, 2017}}

File:Yoko Ono 4 - Echo of Moscow.jpg, 2007]]

Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch in February 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from her back catalog by various artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Anohni, DJ Spooky, Porcupine Tree, and Peaches, along with a special edition of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band.[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KN9FQC/ Plastic Ono Band (Mlps): Yoko Ono: Music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323201940/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KN9FQC/ |date=March 23, 2021 }}. Amazon.com. Retrieved April 4, 2011. Yes I'm a Witch was critically well received.{{cite news|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=February 16, 2007|title=Yoko Ono, Yes, I'm a Witch|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2013581,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218140354/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0%2C%2C2013581%2C00.html|archive-date=February 18, 2007}} A similar compilation of Ono dance remixes entitled Open Your Box was also released in April.{{cite news|date=March 5, 2007|title=Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys Remix Yoko Ono|publisher=Pitchforkmedia.com via the Way Back Machine|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/41503/Basement_Jaxx_Pet_Shop_Boys_Remix_Yoko_Ono|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312043754/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/41503/Basement_Jaxx_Pet_Shop_Boys_Remix_Yoko_Ono|archive-date=March 12, 2007}}

On June 26, 2007, Ono appeared on Larry King Live along with McCartney, Starr and Olivia Harrison.{{cite news|title=The Beatles, Aired June 26, 2007 – 21:00 ET|department=CNN Larry King Live|work=CNN|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/26/lkl.01.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829170712/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/26/lkl.01.html|archive-date=August 29, 2014}} She headlined the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 14, 2007, performing a full set that mixed music and performance art. She sang "Mulberry", a song about her time in the countryside after the Japanese collapse in World War II for only the third time ever, with Thurston Moore: She had previously performed the song with John and with Sean. On October 9 of that year, the Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island in Iceland, dedicated to peace and to Lennon, was turned on with her, Sean, Ringo, and Olivia in attendance.{{cite news|date=October 11, 2007|title=Yoko imagines peace on Lennon's birthday|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/bpeopleb-yoko-ono-imagines-peace-on-lennons-birthday/2007/10/11/1191696065080.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102141646/http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/bpeopleb-yoko-ono-imagines-peace-on-lennons-birthday/2007/10/11/1191696065080.html|archive-date=November 2, 2012}} Each year between October 9 and December 8, it projects a vertical beam of light into the sky.

File:Gala 2008 290.jpg in 2008]]

Ono returned to Liverpool for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, where she unveiled Sky Ladders in the ruins of Church of St Luke (which was largely destroyed during World War II and now stands roofless as a memorial to those killed in the Liverpool Blitz).[http://imaginepeace.com/archives/1504 Yoko Ono: SKYLADDERS – Articles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719165320/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/1504|date=July 19, 2011}}. Imagine Peace (October 21, 2008). Retrieved April 4, 2011. Two years later, on March 31, 2009, she went to the inauguration of the exhibition "Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko" to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lennon-Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, from May 26 to June 2, 1969. The hotel had been doing steady business with the room they stayed in for over 40 years.{{cite news|date=June 28, 2009|title=Montreal hotel celebrates 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Bed-in for Peace"|newspaper=The Seattle Times|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2009389267_trmontreal28.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110051517/http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2009389267_trmontreal28.html|archive-date=November 10, 2013}}) That year Ono became a grandmother when Emi was born to her daughter Kyoko.{{cite magazine|date=January 15, 2001|title=Star Tracks|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20133383,00.html|url-status=dead|magazine=People|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235151/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20133383,00.html|archive-date=April 26, 2014}}

Ono had further Dance/Club Play chart no. 1 hits with "No No No" in January 2008, and "Give Peace a Chance" the following August. In June 2009, at the age of 76, Ono scored her fifth no. 1 hit on the Dance/Club Play chart with "I'm Not Getting Enough".

In May 2009, she designed a T-shirt for the second Fashion Against AIDS campaign and collection of HIV/AIDS awareness, NGO Designers Against AIDS, and H&M, with the statement "Imagine Peace" depicted in 21 languages.[http://designersagainstaids.com/ Designers against AIDS Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715120325/http://www.designersagainstaids.com/|date=July 15, 2010}}. Designersagainstaids.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012. Ono appeared onstage at Microsoft's June 1, 2009, E3 Expo press conference with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr to promote the Beatles: Rock Band video game,{{Cite news|last=Radosh|first=Daniel|date=August 16, 2009|title=While My Guitar Gently Beeps|page=MM26|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408081452/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html|archive-date=April 8, 2011|issn=0362-4331}} which was universally praised by critics.{{cite web|last=Fletcher|first=Brenden|date=June 2, 2009|title=Best Animated Game-Intro Ever: The Beatles Rock Band|url=http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2009/06/best-animated-game-intro-ever-beatles.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607094255/http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2009/06/best-animated-game-intro-ever-beatles.php|archive-date=June 7, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2009|work=fps magazine}}{{cite magazine|last=Bernardin|first=Marc|date=June 2, 2009|title='The Beatles: Rock Band': Most amazing animated commercial ever?|url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/06/02/beatles-rock-band/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802095125/http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/06/02/beatles-rock-band/|archive-date=August 2, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2009|magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} Ono appeared on the Basement Jaxx album Scars, featuring on the single "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)".{{cite web|date=September 1, 2009|title=Basement Jaxx feat. Yoko Ono – Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7280|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719165333/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7280|archive-date=July 19, 2011|access-date=December 8, 2010|publisher=Imagine Peace}} In the same year, she became an honorary patron to Alder Hey Charity,Alder Hey Charity. [http://www.alderheycharity.org/what-we-do/our-patrons/ "Our Patrons"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711203337/http://www.alderheycharity.org/what-we-do/our-patrons/|date=July 11, 2016}}, Liverpool 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2014. and created an exhibit called "John Lennon: The New York City Years" for the NYC Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. The exhibit used music, photographs, and personal items to depict Lennon's life in New York. A portion of the cost of each ticket was donated to Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation set up and founded by Lennon and Ono.{{Cite news|date=December 10, 1980|title=Yoko Ono Asks Mourners to Give To a Foundation Lennon Favored|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/10/archives/yoko-ono-asks-mourners-to-give-to-a-foundation-lennon-favored.html|access-date=August 7, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807021111/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/10/archives/yoko-ono-asks-mourners-to-give-to-a-foundation-lennon-favored.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=John Lennon assets donated to charity|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/26/John-Lennon-assets-donated-to-charity/2196435988800/|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=UPI|language=en|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018211848/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/26/John-Lennon-assets-donated-to-charity/2196435988800/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Spirit Foundations, Inc. {{!}} Find Grantmakers & Nonprofit Funders {{!}} Foundation Directory Online|url=https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo-grantmaker-profile/?key=SPIR001#contact|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=fconline.foundationcenter.org|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807021111/https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo-grantmaker-profile/?key=SPIR001#contact|url-status=live}}

File:Yoko Ono at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards.jpgIn 2009, Ono recorded Between My Head and the Sky, which was her first album to be released as "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" since 1973's Feeling the Space. The all-new Plastic Ono Band lineup included Sean Lennon, Cornelius, and Yuka Honda.{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Between My Head and the Sky, Overview|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-my-head-and-the-sky-mw0000827484|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013025258/http://www.allmusic.com/album/between-my-head-and-the-sky-mw0000827484|archive-date=October 13, 2014|publisher=AllMusic}}{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Between My Head and the Sky, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-my-head-and-the-sky-mw0000827484/credits|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902232533/http://www.allmusic.com/album/between-my-head-and-the-sky-mw0000827484/credits|archive-date=September 2, 2016|publisher=AllMusic}} On February 16, 2010, Sean organized a concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music called "We Are Plastic Ono Band", at which Yoko performed her music with Sean, Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Jim Keltner for the first time since the 1970s. Guests including Bette Midler, Paul Simon and his son Harper, and principal members of Sonic Youth and the Scissor Sisters interpreted her songs in their own styles.{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|date=February 18, 2010|title=Review: "Amid All That Experience, Innocence"|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/arts/music/18yoko-xx.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218053013/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/arts/music/18yoko-xx.html|archive-date=February 18, 2010}}

On April 1, 2010, she was named the first "Global Autism Ambassador" by the Autism Speaks organization. She had created an artwork the year before for autism awareness and allowed it to be auctioned off in 67 parts to benefit the organization.{{cite web|date=April 2, 2010|title=Your Global Autism Ambassador Is ... Yoko Ono? Really?|url=http://specialchildren.about.com/b/2010/04/02/your-global-autism-ambassador-is-yoko-ono-really.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112004736/http://specialchildren.about.com/b/2010/04/02/your-global-autism-ambassador-is-yoko-ono-really.htm|archive-date=November 12, 2013|publisher=About.com}} In April 2010, RCRD LBL made available free downloads of Junior Boys' mix of "Give Me Something", a single originally released 10 years prior on Blueprint for a Sunrise.{{cite news|last=Fitzmaurice|first=Larry|title=Yoko Ono: "Give Me Something" (Junior Boys Remix)|url=https://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14175-give-me-something-junior-boys-remix/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728235124/http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14175-give-me-something-junior-boys-remix/|archive-date=July 28, 2011}} That song and "Wouldnit (I'm a Star)", released September 14,{{cite web|date=September 14, 2010|title=Wouldnit (I'm a Star) – Single by Yoko Ono|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/wouldnit-im-a-star/389247762|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110329072343/http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wouldnit-im-a-star/id389247762|archive-date=March 29, 2011|access-date=July 28, 2011|work=iTunes Store US|publisher=Apple Inc.}} made it to Billboard's end of the year list of favorite Dance/Club songs at No. 23 and No. 50 respectively.{{cite magazine|title=Dance Club Songs, Best of 2010, 21–30|magazine = Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2010/hot-dance-club-play-songs?page=2&begin=21&order=position|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606005000/http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2010/hot-dance-club-play-songs?page=2&begin=21&order=position|archive-date=June 6, 2015|access-date=April 18, 2014}}{{cite magazine|title=Dance Club Songs, Best of 2010, 41–50|magazine = Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2010/hot-dance-club-play-songs?page=4&begin=21&order=position|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531115606/http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2010/hot-dance-club-play-songs?page=4&begin=21&order=position|archive-date=May 31, 2015|access-date=April 18, 2014}}

Ono appeared with Starr on July 7 at New York's Radio City Music Hall in celebration of Starr's 70th birthday, performing "With a Little Help from My Friends" and "Give Peace a Chance".{{cite web|date=July 8, 2010|title=Amazing Ringo 70th Birthday show – McCartney, Yoko, Joe Walsh, Little Steven and much more.|url=http://www.rockartshow.com/blog/amazing-ringo-70th-birthday-show-mccartney-yoko-joe-walsh-little-steven-and-much-more/2010/07/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713232115/http://www.rockartshow.com/blog/amazing-ringo-70th-birthday-show-mccartney-yoko-joe-walsh-little-steven-and-much-more/2010/07/|archive-date=July 13, 2010|access-date=December 8, 2010|work=Rock Art Show Blog|publisher=Rock Art Show}} On September 16, she and Sean attended the opening of Julian Lennon's photo exhibition at the Morrison Hotel in New York City,{{cite magazine|date=September 17, 2010|title=Julian Lennon on His 'Timeless' Photo Exhibition|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/julian-lennon-on-his-new-photos-of-u2-kate-hudson-20100917|url-status=live|magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072748/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/julian-lennon-on-his-new-photos-of-u2-kate-hudson-20100917|archive-date=September 11, 2017}} appearing for the first time photos with Cynthia and Julian.{{cite news|last=Willman|first=Chris|date=April 7, 2013|title=Julian Lennon at 50: It's Never 'Much Too Late' For Lennon Family Discord | Stop The Presses! (NEW)|publisher=Yahoo! Music|url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/julian-lennon-50-never-much-too-lennon-family-004241541.html|url-status=live|access-date=April 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207155023/http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/julian-lennon-50-never-much-too-lennon-family-004241541.html?pt=2|archive-date=December 7, 2013}} She also promoted his work on her website.{{cite web|date=September 30, 2010|title=Julian Lennon: 'Timeless' exhibition at Morrison Hotel Gallery, NYC: Sept17-Oct7|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/12465|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719165600/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/12465|archive-date=July 19, 2011|access-date=April 17, 2014|publisher=Imagine Peace}} On October 2, Ono and the Plastic Ono Band performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, with special guest Lady Gaga, whom she deeply admires.{{cite web|date=September 12, 2011|title=Yoko Ono on Lady Gaga: 'She is Incredible'|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yoko-ono-lady-gaga-she-233953|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314214056/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yoko-ono-lady-gaga-she-233953|archive-date=March 14, 2014|access-date=November 17, 2013|work=The Hollywood Reporter|first1=Michele Amabile|last1=Angermiller}}

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On February 18, 2011 (her 78th birthday), Ono took out a full-page advert in the UK free newspaper Metro for "Imagine Peace 2011". It took the form of an open letter, inviting people to think of, and wish for, peace.Metro (UK), February 18, 2011, p. 30. With son Sean, she held a benefit concert to aid in the relief efforts for earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Japan on March 27 in New York City.[http://imaginepeace.com/archives/14175 March 27 JAPAN BENEFIT Concert: YOKO ONO, Sean Lennon, Sonic Youth, Mike Patton, Cibo Matto & more (Miller Theater Columbia University, NY)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319201441/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/14175|date=March 19, 2011}}. Imagine Peace (March 24, 2011). Retrieved April 4, 2011. The effort raised a total of $33,000. The same year, "Move on Fast" became her sixth consecutive number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and her eighth number-one hit overall.{{cite magazine|last=Perpetua|first=Mathew|date=March 4, 2011|title=Yoko Ono Scores Sixth Consecutive Dance Chart-Topper With 'Move on Fast'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/yoko-ono-scores-sixth-consecutive-dance-chart-topper-with-move-on-fast-20110304|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511082904/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/yoko-ono-scores-sixth-consecutive-dance-chart-topper-with-move-on-fast-20110304|archive-date=May 11, 2011|access-date=July 26, 2011|magazine=Rolling Stone}} She also collaborated with The Flaming Lips on an EP entitled The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band.

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In July 2011, she visited Japan to support earthquake and tsunami victims and tourism to the country. During her visit, Ono gave a lecture and performance entitled "The Road of Hope" at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, during which she painted a large calligraphy piece entitled "Dream" to help raise funds for construction of the Rainbow House, an institution for the orphans of the Great East Japan earthquake.{{cite magazine|date=July 22, 2011|title=Yoko Ono to Japanese Disaster Victims: 'We Are All Together'|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/469130/yoko-ono-to-japanese-disaster-victims-we-are-all-together|url-status=live|magazine=Billboard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908114857/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/469130/yoko-ono-to-japanese-disaster-victims-we-are-all-together|archive-date=September 8, 2014}} She also collected the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her contributions to art and for peace, that she was awarded the year prior.[http://www.hiroshima-moca.jp/main_e/hiroshima_art_prize.html The Hiroshima Art Prize – Hiroshima MOCA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305080929/http://www.hiroshima-moca.jp/main_e/hiroshima_art_prize.html|date=March 5, 2014}}. Retrieved February 21, 2014.

In January 2012, a Ralphi Rosario mix of her 1995 song "Talking to the Universe" became her seventh consecutive No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.{{cite magazine|title=Dance Club Songs, Best of 2011, 21–30|magazine = Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2011/hot-dance-club-play-songs?page=2&begin=21&order=position|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606010704/http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2011/hot-dance-club-play-songs?page=2&begin=21&order=position|archive-date=June 6, 2015|access-date=April 18, 2014}} In March of the same year, she was awarded the 20,000-euro ($26,400) Oskar Kokoschka Prize in Austria.{{cite news|last=Russeth|first=Andrew|date=March 2, 2012|title=Awards: 2012 Oscar Kokoschka Prize Goes to Yoko Ono|publisher=Galleristny|url=http://galleristny.com/2012/03/2012-oscar-kokoschka-prize-goes-to-yoko-ono/|url-status=dead|access-date=February 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221181747/http://galleristny.com/2012/03/2012-oscar-kokoschka-prize-goes-to-yoko-ono/|archive-date=February 21, 2014}} From June 19 to September 9, her work To the Light was exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London.{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono, To the Light|url=http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/shop/yoko-ono-light|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222022521/http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/shop/yoko-ono-light|archive-date=February 22, 2014|access-date=February 10, 2014|publisher=Serpentine Gallery}} It was held in conjunction with the London 2012 Festival, a 12-week UK-wide celebration featuring internationally renowned artists from Midsummer's Day (June 21) to the final day of the Paralympic Games on September 9.{{cite news|date=December 13, 2011|title=Yoko Ono To Exhibit at London 2012 Festival|work=HuffPost|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/13/yoko-onos-first-uk-exhibi_n_1145573.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222144813/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/13/yoko-onos-first-uk-exhibi_n_1145573.html|archive-date=February 22, 2014}} The album Yokokimthurston was also released in 2012, featuring a collaboration with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. AllMusic characterized it as "focused and risk-taking" and "above the best" of the couple's experimental music, with Ono's voice described as "one-of-a-kind".{{cite web|title=Kim Gordon/Thurston Moore/Yoko Ono/YOKOKIMTHURSTON|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yokokimthurston-mw0002411258|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303005812/http://www.allmusic.com/album/yokokimthurston-mw0002411258|archive-date=March 3, 2013|publisher=AllMusic}}

On June 29, 2012, Ono received a lifetime achievement award at the Dublin Biennial. During this (her second) trip to Ireland (the first was with John before they married), she visited the crypt of Irish leader Daniel O'Connell at Glasnevin Cemetery and Dún Laoghaire, from where Irish departed for England to escape the famine.{{cite web|date=June 28, 2012|title=Yoko Ono receives a lifetime achievement award in Dublin | Irish Entertainment in Ireland and Around the World|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Yoko-Ono-receives-a-lifetime-achievement-award-in-Dublin-160581445.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110055112/http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Yoko-Ono-receives-a-lifetime-achievement-award-in-Dublin-160581445.html|archive-date=November 10, 2013|access-date=September 25, 2012|publisher=IrishCentral}} In February 2013, Ono accepted the Rainer Hildebrandt Medal at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie Museum, awarded to her and Lennon for their lifetime of work for peace and human rights.{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono picks up German human rights prize at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie Museum|publisher=Agence France-Presse via ArtDaily|url=http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59559|url-status=dead|access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110142207/http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59559|archive-date=November 10, 2013}} The next month, she tweeted an anti-gun message with the Season of Glass image of Lennon's bloodied glasses on what would have been her and Lennon's 44th anniversary, noting that guns have killed more than 1 million people since Lennon's death in 1980.{{cite web|date=March 21, 2013|title=Yoko Ono Tweets Photo of John Lennon's Bloody Glasses With Anti-Gun Statement|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yoko-ono-tweets-photo-john-430228|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124134058/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yoko-ono-tweets-photo-john-430228|archive-date=January 24, 2014|work=The Hollywood Reporter}} She was also given a Congressional citation from the Philippines for her monetary aid to the victims of typhoon Pablo,{{cite news|date=February 21, 2013|title=Congressional Citation for Yoko Ono|newspaper=Manila Bulletin|url=http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/395021/congressional-citation-yoko-ono|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224083929/http://mb.com.ph/articles/395021/congressional-citation-yoko-ono|archive-date=February 24, 2013}} as well as her donation to disaster relief efforts after typhoon Ondoy in 2009 and assistance of Filipino schoolchildren.{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono, HP donate to Pablo victims|newspaper=The Philippine Star|url=http://www.philstar.com/breaking-news/2013/01/30/902883/yoko-ono-hp-donate-pablo-victims|url-status=live|access-date=November 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203005733/http://www.philstar.com/breaking-news/2013/01/30/902883/yoko-ono-hp-donate-pablo-victims|archive-date=February 3, 2014}}

In 2013, she and the Plastic Ono Band released the LP Take Me to the Land of Hell, which featured numerous guests including Yuka Honda, Cornelius, Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu, mi-gu's Yuko Araki, Wilco's Nels Cline, Tune-Yards, Questlove, Lenny Kravitz, and Ad-Rock and Mike D of the Beastie Boys. In June 2013, she curated the Meltdown festival in London, where she played two concerts, one with the Plastic Ono Band,{{cite news|author=Petridis, Alexis|date=June 15, 2013|title=Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band -review|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jun/15/yoko-ono-plastic-band-review|url-status=live|access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031145300/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jun/15/yoko-ono-plastic-band-review|archive-date=October 31, 2013}} and the second on backing vocals during Siouxsie Sioux's rendition of "Walking on Thin Ice" at the Double Fantasy show.{{cite news|author=Price, Simon|date=June 29, 2013|title=Yoko Ono's Meltdown Finale|newspaper=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/simon-price-on-pop-yoko-ono-s-meltdown-finale-oh-boy-isn-t-it-time-we-all-forgave-yoko-8679765.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309185849/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/simon-price-on-pop-yoko-ono-s-meltdown-finale-oh-boy-isn-t-it-time-we-all-forgave-yoko-8679765.html|archive-date=March 9, 2016}} In July, OR Books published Ono's sequel to 1964's Grapefruit, another book of instruction-based 'action poems' this time entitled, Acorn.

Her online video for "Bad Dancer" released in November 2013, which featured some of these guests, was well-liked by the press.{{cite magazine|date=November 18, 2013|title=The Approval Matrix|url=https://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/approval-matrix-2013-11-18/|url-status=live|magazine=New York magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323194411/http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/approval-matrix-2013-11-18/|archive-date=March 23, 2014}}{{cite magazine|last=Hermes|first=Will|date=December 3, 2013|title=Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: Take Me To The Land Of Hell|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/take-me-to-the-land-of-hell-20131203|url-status=live|magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912060035/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/take-me-to-the-land-of-hell-20131203|archive-date=September 12, 2017}} By the end of the year she had become one of three artists with two songs in the Top 20 Dance/Club and had two consecutive number 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Charts. On the strength of the singles "Hold Me" (Featuring Dave Audé) and "Walking on Thin Ice", the then-80-year-old beat Katy Perry, Robin Thicke and her friend Lady Gaga.

In 2014, "Angel" was Ono's twelfth number one on the US Dance chart.{{cite magazine|date=November 8, 2014|title=Hot Dance Club Songs|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/2014-11-08/dance-club-play-songs|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107211908/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2014-11-08/dance-club-play-songs|archive-date=November 7, 2014|access-date=October 30, 2014|magazine=Billboard}} Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band continued to perform live into 2015.

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On February 16, 2016, Manimal Vinyl released Yes, I'm a Witch Too, which features remixes from Moby, Death Cab For Cutie, Sparks, and Miike Snow. Like its predecessor, Yes, I'm a Witch Too received critical acclaim. On February 26, 2016, Ono was hospitalized after suffering what was rumored to be a possible stroke. It was later announced that she was experiencing extreme symptoms of the flu.{{cite news|author=Karimi, Faith|date=February 27, 2016|title=Artist Yoko Ono hospitalized with 'extreme' flu-like symptoms|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/entertainment/yoko-ono-hospitalized/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229233623/http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/entertainment/yoko-ono-hospitalized|archive-date=February 29, 2016|access-date=February 27, 2016|work=CNN}} On September 6, 2016, Secretly Canadian announced that they would be re-issuing 11 of Ono's albums from 1968 to 1985; Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins through Starpeace.{{cite web|title=Secretly Canadian ANNOUNCE // Yoko Ono Reissue Project|url=http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2016/09/announce-yoko-ono-reissue-project/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606004649/http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2016/09/announce-yoko-ono-reissue-project/|archive-date=June 6, 2017|access-date=June 24, 2017|website=Secretlycanadian.com}}{{cite web|date=September 6, 2016|title=Yoko Ono Announces Reissue Project – Pitchfork|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/67988-yoko-ono-announces-reissue-project/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628062007/http://pitchfork.com/news/67988-yoko-ono-announces-reissue-project/|archive-date=June 28, 2017|access-date=June 24, 2017|website=Pitchfork}} In December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time.

In October 2018, Ono released Warzone, which included new versions of previously recorded tracks including "Imagine".{{Cite web|url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/reflections-yoko-ono/|title=Reflections: Yoko Ono|date=January 31, 2019|website=Relix.com|access-date=February 7, 2022|archive-date=January 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125123826/https://relix.com/articles/detail/reflections-yoko-ono/|url-status=live}}

In a piece for the New Yorker published in November 2021, it was noted that Ono had "withdrawn from public life", with her son Sean now acting as the public representative for the family's interests in the Beatles' business.{{Cite magazine|date=2021-10-08|title=Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show|access-date=2021-11-07|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106061331/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show|url-status=live}}

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Ono was a pioneer of conceptual art and performance art. A seminal performance work is Cut Piece, first performed in 1964 at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto, Japan. The piece consisted of Ono, dressed in her best suit, kneeling on a stage with a pair of scissors in front of her. She invited and then instructed audience members to join her on stage and cut pieces of her clothing off. Confronting issues of gender, class and cultural identity, Ono sat silently until the piece concluded at her discretion.{{harvnb|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=158}} The piece was subsequently performed at the Sogetsu Art Centre in Tokyo that same year, New York's Carnegie Hall in 1965 and London's Africa Center as part of the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966.{{cite book|last1=Phelan|first1=Peggy|editor1-last=Butler|editor1-first=Cornelia|editor1-link=WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution|title=The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performances, 1960–80|date=2007|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art|location=Los Angeles|page=350}} Of the piece, John Hendricks wrote in the catalogue to Ono's Japan Society retrospective: "[Cut Piece] unveils the interpersonal alienation that characterizes social relationships between subjects, dismantling the disinterested Kantian aesthetic model{{nbsp}}... It demonstrates the reciprocity between artists, objects, and viewers and the responsibility beholders have to the reception and preservation of art."

Other performers of the piece have included Charlotte Moorman and John Hendricks. Ono reprised the piece in Paris in 2003, in the low post-9/11 period between the US and France, saying she hoped to show that this is "a time where we need to trust each other". In 2013, the Canadian singer Peaches reprised it at the multi-day Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London, which Ono curated.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/23/yoko-ono-meltdown-2013-review|last=Empire|first=Kitty|title=Yoko Ono's Meltdown – review|date=June 22, 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231011026/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/23/yoko-ono-meltdown-2013-review|archive-date=December 31, 2016}}

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Ono's small book titled Grapefruit is another seminal piece of conceptual art. First published in 1964, the book reads as a set of instructions through which the work of art is completed-either literally or in the imagination of the viewer participant. One example is "Hide and Seek Piece: Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies." Grapefruit has been published several times, most widely distributed by Simon & Schuster in 1971, who reprinted it again in 2000. David Bourdon, art critic for The Village Voice and Vogue, called Grapefruit "one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960s". He noted that her conceptual approach was made more acceptable when white male artists like Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner came in and "did virtually the same things" she did, and that her take also has a poetic and lyrical side that sets it apart from the work of other conceptual artists.

Ono would enact many of the book's scenarios as performance pieces throughout her career, which formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including the highly publicized retrospective exhibition, This Is Not Here in 1971 at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&q=596|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1|publisher=Oxford University Press |editor=Joan M. Marter|first=Kevin|last=Concannon|year=2011|page=596|isbn=978-0195335798|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217203017/https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&q=596#v=snippet&q=596&f=false|archive-date=February 17, 2018}} that was nearly closed when it was besieged by excited Beatles fans, who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets.{{cite book |last=Pang|first=May|title=Loving John|publisher=Warner Books (Paperback)|year=1983|isbn=978-0-446-37916-8}} It was her last major exhibition until 1989's Yoko Ono: Objects, Films retrospective at the Whitney.

Nearly fifty years later in July 2013, she released a sequel to Grapefruit, another book of instructions, Acorn via OR Books.{{cite book|last=Ono|first=Yoko|title=Acorn|publisher=OR Books|year=2013|isbn=978-1-939293-23-7}}

a 20-piece collection conjoining short instructional texts by Ono with Maciunas' graphic illustrations. First printed in "3 newspaper events for the price of $1", the No. 7, February 1966 issue of the Fluxus magazine cc V TRE, the compilation underscores the Fluxus idea that anyone can make art. These amusing pieces find meaning in the humorous dialogue that exists between Ono's instructions and Maciunas' skillful treatment of text with relation to pictorial motifs.{{cite web | url=https://fluxusfoundation.com/archive/about-yoko-fluxus-foundation-archive/d-i-y-do-it-yourself-group-exhibition-2009/do-it-yourself-fluxfest-1966/ | title=Yoko Ono: Do It Yourself Fluxfest (1966) | date=May 18, 2015 | access-date=December 11, 2023 | archive-date=December 11, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211141748/https://fluxusfoundation.com/archive/about-yoko-fluxus-foundation-archive/d-i-y-do-it-yourself-group-exhibition-2009/do-it-yourself-fluxfest-1966/ | url-status=live }}

Ono was also an experimental filmmaker who made 16 films between 1964 and 1972, gaining particular renown for a 1966 Fluxus film called simply No. 4, often referred to as Bottoms.{{sfn|The Rare Films of Yoko Ono|2004}}{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono Biography: Films |url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/yoko-ono/films.html |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202100643/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/yoko-ono/films.html|archive-date=February 2, 2014 |publisher=Biography Channel (UK)}} The 80-minute film consists of a series of close-ups of human buttocks walking on a treadmill. The screen is divided into four almost equal sections by the elements of the gluteal cleft and the horizontal gluteal crease. The soundtrack consists of interviews with those who are being filmed, as well as those considering joining the project. In 1996, the watch manufacturing company Swatch produced a limited edition watch that commemorated this film.{{cite web |url=http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/watches/finder-detail.sku-GB168.html|title=Film No. 4|publisher=swatch.com|access-date=February 5, 2014|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217183705/http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/watches/finder-detail.sku-GB168.html|archive-date=December 17, 2013}} She also collaborated with Lennon on the film Fly (1970), the soundtrack of which appeared on her 1971 album Fly; and on Up Your Legs Forever, a quasi-sequel to No. 4.{{cite book|author=Keith Badman|title=The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After The Break-Up 1970-2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDLhgzA930UC|date=28 October 2009|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-001-4|page=49}}

In March 2004, the ICA London, showed most of her films from this period in their exhibition The Rare Films of Yoko Ono.{{sfn|The Rare Films of Yoko Ono|2004}} She also acted in an obscure exploitation film in 1965, Satan's Bed.

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File:Yoko Ono Wish Tree B.JPG, 2012]]

Another example of Ono's participatory art was her Wish Tree project, in which a tree native to the installation site is installed. Her 1996 Wish Piece had the following instructions:

:Make a wish

:Write it down on a piece of paper

:Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree

:Ask your friends to do the same

:Keep wishing

:Until the branches are covered with wishes.{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=294}}

Her Wish Tree installation in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, established in July 2010, has attracted contributions from all over the world. Other installation locations include London;{{cite news|url=http://galleristny.com/2013/06/pharell-williams-wrote-a-pretty-cool-wish-on-yoko-onos-wish-tree/|title=Pharrell Williams Wrote a Pretty Cool Wish on Yoko Ono's Wish Tree|date=June 6, 2013|publisher=N.Y. Observer|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110035153/http://galleristny.com/2013/06/pharell-williams-wrote-a-pretty-cool-wish-on-yoko-onos-wish-tree/|archive-date=November 10, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013}} St. Louis;{{cite news|url=http://enjp.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/946908/yoko-onos-wish-tree-at-saint-louis-art-museum|title=Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at Saint Louis Art Museum|date=August 19, 2013|publisher=Blouin Art Info|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110091435/http://enjp.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/946908/yoko-onos-wish-tree-at-saint-louis-art-museum|archive-date=November 10, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013}} Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Copenhagen;{{Cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-copenhagen-contemporary-presents-yoko-onos-wish-tree-garden-outside-112645453.html|title=Copenhagen Contemporary presents Yoko Ono's "Wish Tree Garden" outside the old warehouses on Papirøen, Paper Island Stock Photo – Alamy|website=Alamy.com|access-date=February 7, 2022|archive-date=January 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125105324/https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-copenhagen-contemporary-presents-yoko-onos-wish-tree-garden-outside-112645453.html|url-status=live}} the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California; Japan;{{cite web|url=http://imaginepeacetower.com/yoko-onos-wish-trees|title=Yoko Ono's Wish Trees|publisher=Imagine Peace Tower website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114151658/http://imaginepeacetower.com/yoko-onos-wish-trees|archive-date=November 14, 2013|access-date=October 31, 2013}} Venice;{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/dettagli/pop_up_opera2.php?id_opera=359|publisher=Peggy Guggenheim Collection|title=Yoko Ono|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129064706/http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/dettagli/pop_up_opera2.php?id_opera=359|archive-date=November 29, 2014|access-date=November 10, 2013}} Dublin; and, Miami at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.fairchildgarden.org/portals/0/docs/education/adventure_program/artgardenprogram.pdf|title=Art in the Garden Program|website=Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden|access-date=March 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806080342/https://www.fairchildgarden.org/portals/0/docs/education/adventure_program/artgardenprogram.pdf|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=dead}}

In 2014 Ono's Imagine Peace exhibit opened at the Bob Rauschenburg Gallery at Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers, Florida. Ono installed a billboard on U.S. Route 41 in Fort Myers to promote the show and peace.{{cite web|url=http://www.artswfl.com/art-stops/museums-art-centers/bob-rauchenburg-gallery/yoko-ono-imagine-peace/yoko-ono-imagine-peace-at-the-rauschenberg-gallery|title=Yoko Ono Imagine Peace at the Rauschenberg Gallery|website=Artswfl.com|access-date=June 24, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118031931/http://www.artswfl.com/art-stops/museums-art-centers/bob-rauchenburg-gallery/yoko-ono-imagine-peace/yoko-ono-imagine-peace-at-the-rauschenberg-gallery|archive-date=January 18, 2017}} File:Imagine Peace Billboard Fort Myers FL Photo by Dawn Iraci.jpg When the exhibit closed, wishes that had been placed on the installed Wish Trees were sent to the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland and added to the millions of wishes already there.{{cite web|url=http://www.rauschenberggallery.com/2014/03/2014-exhibition-archives/|title=2014 Exhibition Archives – Bob Rauschenberg Gallery|website=Rauschenberggallery.com|access-date=June 24, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028070803/http://www.rauschenberggallery.com/2014/03/2014-exhibition-archives/|archive-date=October 28, 2017}} Imagine Peace was also installed in Houston in 2011 through the Deborah Colton Gallery, returning in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/16052|title=Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE billboard (Holly St & Sheam St (I-45N & I-10), Houston, Texas)|first=Imagine|last=Peace|date=September 25, 2011 |access-date=May 15, 2020|archive-date=September 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924185652/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/16052|url-status=live}}

One of two pieces Ono installed as part of the 2014 Folkestone Triennial, Earth Peace originally consisted of many parts and appeared in many locations and media around Folkestone, including posters, stickers, billboards and badges.{{Cite news|date=August 30, 2014|title=Yoko Ono provides greeting for people arriving at Folkestone Triennial arts festival|work=Kent Online|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/message-of-peace-as-festival-22643/|url-status=live|access-date=March 29, 2021|archive-date=March 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311031537/https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/message-of-peace-as-festival-22643/}} Three of the pieces remain in Folkestone, on loan to the town and part of the Creative Folkestone Artworks collection. These include an inscribed stone, a flag – which is flown on an annual basis on International Peace Day and a beacon of light installed on the dome roof of The Grand in Folkestone Leas. Ono's beacon flashes a morse code message, "Earth Peace", across the English Channel.{{cite web|title=Folkestone Collections|url=https://mail.grand-uk.com/Folkestone%20Collections.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018173826/https://mail.grand-uk.com/Folkestone%20Collections.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 18, 2021|access-date=March 29, 2021|website=The Grand}}

The second of Ono's 2014 Folkestone Triennial pieces and now also on loan to the town as part of the Folkestone Artworks collection, Skyladder is displayed in two locations – on a high wall of the Quarterhouse bar and in the staircase of the Folkestone public library. Skyladder takes the form of an artistic 'instruction' or invitation to the people of Folkestone and beyond. The instruction reads: "Audience should bring a ladder they like. Colour it. Word it. Take pictures of it. Keep adding things to it. And send it as a postcard to a friend".

In 2015, Ono created the piece Arising in Venice. As part of the exhibition Personal Structures, organised by Global Art Affairs, the installation was on view from June 1 through November 24, 2013, at the European Cultural Centre's Palazzo Bembo.{{cite web|url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/call-women-whitehot-magazine-interview/2792|title=WM {{!}} whitehot magazine of contemporary art {{!}} June 2013: Yoko Ono: Arising a call for Women – the Whitehot Magazine Interview|website=Whitehotmagazine.com|access-date=July 11, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113150417/https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/call-women-whitehot-magazine-interview/2792|archive-date=January 13, 2018}} In this feminist work of art, female silicon bodies were burnt in the Venetian lagoon, evoking the imagery of mythical phoenixes. When asked for the resemblance between the naming of her record Rising and this piece, Ono responded: "Rising was telling all people that it is time for us to rise and fight for our rights. But in the process of fighting together, women are still being treated separately in an inhuman way. It weakens the power of men and women all together. I hope Arising will wake up Women Power, and make us, men and women, heal together."{{Cite news|url=http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=15615|title=Sarah Gold and Karlyn De Jongh Talk with Yoko Ono – NY Arts Magazine|date=January 31, 2014|work=NY Arts Magazine|access-date=July 11, 2017|archive-date=December 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204210259/https://nyartsmagazine.com/sarah-gold-and-karlyn-de-jongh-talk-with-yoko-ono/|url-status=live}}

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In October 2016, Ono unveiled her first permanent art installation in the United States; the collection is located in Jackson Park, Chicago and promotes peace.{{cite web |url=http://www.skylanding.com/|title=SKYLANDING By Yoko Ono|website=Skylanding.com|access-date=June 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628113552/http://www.skylanding.com/|archive-date=June 28, 2017|url-status=dead}} Ono was inspired during a visit to the Garden of the Phoenix in 2013 and feels a connection to the city of Chicago.{{cite web|title=Project 120 Chicago – SKYLANDING by Yoko Ono |url=http://www.project120chicago.org/plans_projects/p2-skylanding |access-date=June 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609065044/http://www.project120chicago.org/plans_projects/p2-skylanding |archive-date=June 9, 2017 |url-status=dead |website=Project120chicago.org}}

Participating in Lower Manhattan's River to River Festival in 2019, Ono presented her participatory installation Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019). The work comprises a white room with a white rowing boat in it, which were both covered by messages and drawings from members of the audience throughout the festival. Through the participatory nature of the work, the artist emphasised the need for solidarity and the history of immigrants and refugees in the United States. Refugee Boat belongs to Ono's Add Color Painting series, first enacted in 1960, which invites the audience to make marks over the designated objects, often white.{{cite news|url=https://ocula.com/artists/yoko-ono/|title=Yoko Ono|last=Paik|first=Sherry|website=Ocula|date=June 2021|access-date=November 11, 2019|archive-date=October 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018135011/https://ocula.com/artists/yoko-ono/|url-status=live}}

File:'War Is Over! (if you want it) Yoko Ono' exhibition - Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (10867835755).jpg, 2013. For this exhibition, she took a pair of Lennon's glasses and smeared blood on them, since the real bloodstained glasses Lennon wore on the day of his death were unavailable as she had sold them off.]]

John Lennon once described his wife as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does".{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2012/jun/08/yoko-ono-retrospective-serpentine-conceptual |title=The Guardian Profile: Yoko Ono|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|date=June 8, 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910143500/https://www.theguardian.com/global/2012/jun/08/yoko-ono-retrospective-serpentine-conceptual|archive-date=September 10, 2017|url-status=live}} Her circle of friends in the New York art world has included Kate Millett, Nam June Paik,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|pp=23, 55}} Dan Richter, Jonas Mekas,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=28}} Merce Cunningham,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=18}} Judith Malina,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=55}} Erica Abeel, Fred DeAsis, Peggy Guggenheim,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=82}} Betty Rollin, Shusaku Arakawa, Adrian Morris, Stefan Wolpe,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=18}} Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=55}} (she was one of the speakers at Warhol's 1987 funeral), as well as George Maciunas and La Monte Young. In addition to Mekas, Maciunas, Young, and Warhol, she has also collaborated with DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=22}} and Zbigniew Rybczyński.{{Citation |title=Yoko Ono: Hell in Paradise |date=1985-10-13 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7768970/#:~:text=very%20tall%20men.-,Director,Zbigniew%20Rybczynski,-Stars |type=Short, Music |access-date=2022-08-05 |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805211834/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7768970/#:~:text=very%20tall%20men.-,Director,Zbigniew%20Rybczynski,-Stars |url-status=live }}

In 1989, the Whitney Museum held a retrospective of her work, Yoko Ono: Objects, Films, marking Ono's reentry into the New York art world after a hiatus. At the suggestion of Ono's live-in companion at the time, interior decorator Sam Havadtoy, she recast her old pieces in bronze after some initial reluctance. "I realized that for something to move me so much that I would cry, there's something there. There seemed like a shimmering air in the 60s when I made these pieces, and now the air is bronzified. Now it's the 80s, and bronze is very 80s in a way – solidity, commodity, all of that. For someone who went through the 60s revolution, there has of course been an incredible change. . . . I call the pieces petrified bronze. That freedom, all the hope and wishes are in some ways petrified."{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Taylor|author-link=Paul Taylor (art critic) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/art-yoko-ono-s-new-bronze-age-at-the-whitney.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title=Yoko Ono's New Bronze Age at the Whitney|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 5, 1989|access-date=January 31, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113183517/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/art-yoko-ono-s-new-bronze-age-at-the-whitney.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|archive-date=November 13, 2013}}

Over a decade later, in 2001, Y E S YOKO ONO, a 40-year retrospective of Ono's work, received the International Association of Art Critics USA Award for Best Museum Show Originating in New York City, considered one of the highest accolades in the museum profession. YES refers to the title of a 1966 sculptural work by Yoko Ono, shown at Indica Gallery, London: viewers climb a ladder to read the word "yes", printed on a small canvas suspended from the ceiling.{{cite web|url=http://www.walkerart.org/archive/A/AA7391E41BD0C90E616F.htm|title=MARCH 10-JUNE 17, 2001 Y E S YOKO ONO|year=2000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502080202/http://www.walkerart.org/archive/A/AA7391E41BD0C90E616F.htm|archive-date=May 2, 2015}} The exhibition's curator Alexandra Munroe wrote that "John Lennon got it, on his first meeting with Yoko: when he climbed the ladder to peer at the framed paper on the ceiling, he encountered the tiny word YES. 'So it was positive. I felt relieved.'"{{cite web|url=http://www.alexandramunroe.com/spirit-of-yes-the-art-and-life-of-yoko-ono-2/|title=Spirit of YES: The Art and Life of Yoko Ono|year=2000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307183246/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/spirit-of-yes-the-art-and-life-of-yoko-ono-2/|archive-date=March 7, 2016|access-date=August 4, 2015}} The exhibition traveled to 13 museums in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Korea from 2000 through 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.alexandramunroe.com/exhibitions/yes-yoko-ono/|title=YES Yoko Ono Exhibition Details|date=August 4, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726160137/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/exhibitions/yes-yoko-ono/|archive-date=July 26, 2015|access-date=August 4, 2015}} In 2001, she received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Liverpool University and, in 2002, was presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from Bard College{{cite web|url=http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=490|title=Visual and Recording Artist Yoko Ono To Be Awarded An Honorary Degree at Bard College on Tuesday, October 29 (press release)|access-date=October 28, 2011|publisher=Bard College website|date=October 17, 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027212411/http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=490|archive-date=October 27, 2012}}

and the Skowhegan Medal for work in assorted media.{{cite web|publisher=MoMA/P.S.1|url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/52|title=Yoko Ono: Freight Train|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413080205/http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/52|archive-date=April 13, 2014|access-date=April 18, 2014}} The next year, she was awarded the fifth MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/09/03/the-8th-moca-award-to-distinguished-women-in-the-arts-luncheon/|title=The Curve: The 8th MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts Luncheon|date=September 3, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203065233/http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/09/03/the-8th-moca-award-to-distinguished-women-in-the-arts-luncheon/|archive-date=February 3, 2014|access-date=April 19, 2014}} In 2005, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Japan Society of New York, which had hosted Yes Yoko Ono{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono wins achievement award|newspaper=Japan Times|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/08/national/yoko-ono-wins-achievement-award/|access-date=April 18, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104145448/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/04/08/national/yoko-ono-wins-achievement-award/#.U1GepSRn8rw|archive-date=November 4, 2013}} and where she had worked in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In 2008, she showed a large retrospective exhibition, Between The Sky and My Head, at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The following year, she showed a selection of new and old work as part of her show "Anton's Memory" in Venice, Italy.{{cite web|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/tag/antons-memory|title=Yoko Ono: Anton's Memory [Pallazetto Tito, Venice, Italy] – *VIDEO*|access-date=February 23, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219090243/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/tag/antons-memory|archive-date=December 19, 2010}}. imaginepeace.com She also received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/archive/exhibition/awards/|title=53rd International Art Exhibition: Jury and Awards|publisher=La Biennale di Venezia|access-date=October 28, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028121421/http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/archive/exhibition/awards|archive-date=October 28, 2011}} In 2012, Ono held a major exhibition of her work To The Light at the Serpentine Galleries, London.[http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/yoko-ono-light Yoko Ono: To The Light 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204170617/http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/yoko-ono-light |date=February 4, 2015 }} at the Serpentine Galleries, London She was also the winner of the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17237037|title=Yoko Ono wins Oskar Kokoschka art prize in Austria|work=BBC News|date=March 2, 2012|access-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623062818/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17237037|archive-date=June 23, 2012}} In February 2013, to coincide with her 80th birthday, the largest retrospective of her work, Half-a-Wind Show, opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

and travelled to Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Austria's Kunsthalle Krems, and Spain's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.{{cite web|url=http://www.kunsthalle.at/en/kunsthalle-krems/exhibitions/yoko-ono|title=Retrospective. Yoko Ono. Half-a-Wind Show|publisher=Kunsthalle Krems|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104234512/http://www.kunsthalle.at/en/kunsthalle-krems/exhibitions/yoko-ono|archive-date=November 4, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-74196|title=YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND Part of Festival of Neighbourhood and Meltdown Royal Festival Hall Friday 14 June 2013|publisher=Southbank Centre website|access-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412062619/http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-74196|archive-date=April 12, 2013}}

In 2014 she contributed several artworks to the triennial Folkestone art festival. In 2015 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of her early work, "Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960– 1971".{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1494?locale=en|title=Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 – MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=June 24, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621031841/https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1494?locale=en|archive-date=June 21, 2017}} In 2015, Yoko Ono received the European Cultural Centre Art Award for her continuing efforts to promote "Imagine Peace".{{Cite web |title=ALL ECC AWARDS |url=https://ecc-italy.eu/eccaward/alleccawards |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=ecc-italy.eu}}

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Ono has been an activist for peace and human rights since the 1960s. After she and Lennon married in Gibraltar, they held a March 1969 "Bed-in for Peace" in their honeymoon suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. The newlyweds were eager to talk about and promote world peace; they wore pajamas and invited visitors and members of the press. Two months later, Ono and Lennon held another Bed-in at the Queen Elizabeth Fairmont in Montreal, where they recorded their first single, "Give Peace A Chance". The song became a top-20 hit for the newly christened Plastic Ono Band.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lennon-mn0000232564/awards|title=John Lennon: Awards|publisher=AllMusic|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015040256/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lennon-mn0000232564/awards|archive-date=October 15, 2012}} Other performance/demonstrations with John included "bagism", iterations with John of the Bag Pieces she introduced in the early 1960s,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=162-65}} which encouraged a disregard for physical appearance in judging others. In December 1969, the two continued to spread their message of peace with billboards in 12 major world cities reading "WAR IS OVER! If You Want It – Happy Christmas from John & Yoko".{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=190-91}}

In the 1970s, Ono and Lennon became close to many radical, counterculture leaders, including Bobby Seale,{{cite book|last=Doggett|first=Peter|title=There's a Riot Going on: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '60s|publisher=Grove/Atlantic|year=2007|page=501}} Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/articles/2014/01/22/john-lennon-rebel-beatle|title=John Lennon: Rebel Beatle|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|last=Risen|first=Tom|date=January 22, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829214345/http://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/articles/2014/01/22/john-lennon-rebel-beatle|archive-date=August 29, 2016}} Michael X,{{sfn|Harry|2001}} John Sinclair (for whose rally in Michigan they flew to sing Lennon's song "Free John Sinclair" that effectively released the poet from prison),{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/03/john-sinclair-rock-revolutionary-mc5-interview|title=John Sinclair: 'We wanted to kick ass – and raise consciousness'|last=O'Hagan|first=Sean|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 2, 2014|access-date=April 29, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429223619/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/03/john-sinclair-rock-revolutionary-mc5-interview|archive-date=April 29, 2014}} Angela Davis, and street musician David Peel.{{cite news|url=http://thevillager.com/2012/12/13/john-lennon-david-peel-and-rocks-greatest-flattery/|title=John Lennon, David Peel and rock's greatest flattery|newspaper=The Villager|date=December 13, 2012|last=Derienzo|first=Paul|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223031028/http://thevillager.com/2012/12/13/john-lennon-david-peel-and-rocks-greatest-flattery/|archive-date=February 23, 2014|access-date=February 11, 2014}} Friend and Sexual Politics author Kate Millett has said Ono inspired her activism.{{cite news|url=http://www.harvardindependent.com/2011/12/conversations-with-kate-millett-discussing-feminism-art-spanish-and-harvard-1201/|title=Conversations with Kate Millett|last=Simmons|first=William|publisher=The Harvard Independent|date=December 1, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002854/http://www.harvardindependent.com/2011/12/conversations-with-kate-millett-discussing-feminism-art-spanish-and-harvard-1201/|archive-date=December 3, 2013}} Ono and Lennon appeared on The Mike Douglas Show, taking over hosting duties for a week.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-mike-douglas-show-with-john-lennon-yoko-ono-mw0001072473|title=The Mike Douglas Show with John Lennon & Yoko Ono|publisher=AllMusic|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102052119/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-mike-douglas-show-with-john-lennon-yoko-ono-mw0001072473|archive-date=January 2, 2015}} Ono spoke at length about the evils of racism and sexism. She remained outspoken in her support of feminism, and openly bitter about the racism she had experienced from rock fans, especially in the UK. Her reception within the US media was not much better. For example, an Esquire article of the period was titled "John Rennon's Excrusive Gloupie" and featured an unflattering David Levine cartoon.{{cite book|last1=Cronin|first1=J. Ken|last2=Robertson|first2=Kirsty|title=Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|date=2011|page=71}}

After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, Ono paid for billboards to be put up in New York City and Los Angeles that bore the image of Lennon's blood-splashed spectacles. Early in 2002{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1855507.stm|title=Yoko brings peace message to UK|work=BBC News|date=March 5, 2002|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301214840/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1855507.stm|archive-date=March 1, 2014}} she paid about £150,000 ($213,375)Oanda.com's currency converter, 3/5/02 for a billboard in Piccadilly Circus with a line from Lennon's "Imagine": "Imagine all the people living life in peace." Later the same year, she inaugurated a peace award, the LennonOno Grant for Peace, by giving $50,000 (£31,900) in prize money originally to artists living "in regions of conflict". The award is given out every two years in conjunction with the lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower, and was first given to Israeli and Palestinian artists. Its program has since expanded to include writers, such as Michael Pollan and Alice Walker, activists such as Vandana Shiva and Pussy Riot, organizations such as New York's Center for Constitutional Rights, even an entire country (Iceland).[http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2008/12/24/TT-971224-P14-IB.pdf Imagine Peace] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319151441/http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2008/12/24/TT-971224-P14-IB.pdf |date=March 19, 2009 }}. (PDF). Taipei Times. December 24, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2012.

On Valentine's Day 2003, which was the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the US and UK, Ono heard about a couple, Andrew and Christine Gale, who were holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire. She phoned them and said, "It's good to speak to you. We're supporting you. We're all sisters together."{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2914079.stm|title=Yoko Ono supports bed protest|publisher=BBC|date=April 3, 2003|access-date=February 10, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055557/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2914079.stm|archive-date=February 22, 2014}} The couple said that songs like "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine" inspired their protest. In 2004, Ono remade her song "Everyman..... Everywoman....." to support same-sex marriage, releasing remixes that included "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him" and "Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her".{{cite book|last=Johnstone|first=Nick|title=Yoko Ono Talking|publisher=Omnibus Press|page=13|isbn=978-0857122551|date=April 7, 2010}}

In August 2011, she made the documentary film about the Bed-ins Bed Peace available for free on YouTube,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjjiOV003Q|title=BED PEACE starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono|website=YouTube|date=August 12, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320222323/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjjiOV003Q|archive-date=March 20, 2016}} and as part of her website "Imagine Peace".{{cite web|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/15702|title=Watch the film #BEDPEACE starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono ✩✩✩ FREE ✩✩✩|date=September 3, 2011|author=Yoko Ono Lennon|publisher=ImaginePeace.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530022451/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/15702|archive-date=May 30, 2014|access-date=February 18, 2014}}

In January 2013, the 79-year-old Ono, along with Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon, took to rural Pennsylvania in a bus under the banner of the Artists Against Fracking group she and Sean created with Mark Ruffalo in August 2012 to protest against hydraulic fracturing.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/18/fracking-debate-ono-lennon-sarandon-tour|title=Fracking debate draws Yoko, Lennon and Sarandon to rural battlegrounds: Artists Against Fracking board bus for magical mystery tour of Pennsylvania as New York and New Jersey decisions draw near|last=Gabbatt|first=Adam|date=January 18, 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312154838/http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/18/fracking-debate-ono-lennon-sarandon-tour|archive-date=March 12, 2016}} Other group members include Lady Gaga and Alec Baldwin.{{cite magazine|url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/fracking-2012-9/|title=Intelligencer: Fracklash|date=September 10, 2012|magazine=New York|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414004717/http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/fracking-2012-9/|archive-date=April 14, 2014}}

Ono promotes her art and shares inspirational messages and images{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/feb/23/art-twitter-twart|title=Art on Twitter: yes, but is it twart?|last=Jamieson|first=Ruth|date=February 23, 2009|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=February 22, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228212653/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/feb/23/art-twitter-twart|archive-date=February 28, 2014}} through a robust and active Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook presence. In April 2014 her Twitter followers reached 4.69 million,{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/yokoono|title=Yoko Ono|publisher=Twitter|access-date=April 17, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410093528/https://twitter.com/yokoono|archive-date=April 10, 2014}}{{Primary source inline|date=October 2019}} while her Instagram followers exceeded 99,000. Her tweets are short instructional poems,{{cite web|url=http://www.yenmag.net/artery/yoko-onos-tweets-of-wisdom/|title=Yoko Ono's Tweets of Wisdom|last1=Sinclair|first1=Hannah|website=Yenmag.net|date=July 8, 2011|access-date=July 30, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110131516/http://www.yenmag.net/artery/yoko-onos-tweets-of-wisdom/|archive-date=November 10, 2013}} comments on media and politics,{{cite news|title=Yoko Ono tweets John Lennon's bloody glasses|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yoko-ono-tweets-john-lennons-bloody-glasses/|work=CBS News|date=March 21, 2013|access-date=July 30, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523210207/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57575711/yoko-ono-tweets-john-lennons-bloody-glasses/|archive-date=May 23, 2013}} and notes about performances.{{cite news|url=http://grantland.com/the-triangle/today-in-twitter-beefs-andy-murrays-mom-vs-yoko-ono/|title=Today in Twitter Beefs: Andy Murray's Mom vs. Yoko Ono|last=Phillips|first=Brian|publisher=Grantland|date=March 24, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429234810/http://grantland.com/the-triangle/today-in-twitter-beefs-andy-murrays-mom-vs-yoko-ono/|archive-date=April 29, 2014|access-date=April 29, 2014}}

In 1987, Ono travelled to Moscow to participate in the "International Forum for a Nuclear-free World and for the Survival of Mankind". She also visited Leningrad, where she met with members of the local John Lennon memorial club. Among these members was Kolya Vasin, who was considered the biggest Beatles fan in the Soviet Union.{{cite web|url=https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/3802/54/Bagir-Zade_-__Bitlz__-_navsegda!.html|title="Битлз" – продолжение истории – "Битлз" – навсегда!|website=E-reading.club}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[https://www.golos-ameriki.ru/a/2998096.html К храму Любви, Мира и Музыки ведут песни Джона Леннона] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329224904/https://www.golos-ameriki.ru/a/2998096.html |date=March 29, 2019 }} (RU){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45402514|title=Russia's biggest Beatles fan Vasin dies|date=September 3, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=March 9, 2019|archive-date=May 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505041732/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45402514|url-status=live}}

Public appreciation of Ono's work has shifted over time and was helped by a retrospective at a Whitney Museum branch in 1989{{Cite news|last=Taylor|first=Paul|date=February 5, 1989|title=ART; Yoko Ono's New Bronze Age at the Whitney|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/art-yoko-ono-s-new-bronze-age-at-the-whitney.html|access-date=March 4, 2019|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306050805/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/art-yoko-ono-s-new-bronze-age-at-the-whitney.html|url-status=live}} and the 1992 release of the six-disc box set Onobox. Retrospectives of her artwork have also been presented at the Japan Society in New York City in 2001,{{cite web|title=Yes Yoko Ono|url=https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/gallery/past_exhibitions/past-exhibitions-expanded|access-date=March 4, 2019|website=Japansociety.org|archive-date=November 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105121259/https://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/gallery/past_exhibitions/past-exhibitions-expanded|url-status=dead}} in Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008, Frankfurt, and Bilbao, Spain, in 2013 and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2015. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.

In January 2021, Ono was one of the founders of The Coda Collection, a service that launched in the U.S. via Amazon Prime Video Channels on February 18, 2021, the day Ono turned 88. The Coda Collection will feature a slew of music documentaries and concert films. Jim Spinello will run The Coda Channel. Yoko Ono added, "John Lennon was always on the cutting edge of music and culture. The Coda Collection will be a new way for fans to connect on a deeper level."{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/yoko-ono-janie-hendrix-the-coda-collection-1120106/|title=Yoko Ono, Janie Hendrix Launch the Coda Collection Music Channel|first1=Althea|last1=Legaspi|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=January 28, 2021|access-date=February 15, 2021|archive-date=February 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220180455/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/yoko-ono-janie-hendrix-the-coda-collection-1120106/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/yoko-ono-and-janie-hendrix-help-launch-new-music-channel-coda-collection-2866765|title=Yoko Ono and Janie Hendrix help launch new music channel Coda Collection|website=NME|date=January 28, 2021|access-date=February 17, 2021|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204094544/https://www.nme.com/news/music/yoko-ono-and-janie-hendrix-help-launch-new-music-channel-coda-collection-2866765|url-status=live}}

For many years, Ono was frequently criticized by both the press and the public. She was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=40}} and repeatedly criticized for her influence over Lennon and his music. Her experimental art was also not popularly accepted. The British press was particularly negative and prompted the couple's move to the US. As late as December 1999, NME was calling her a "no-talent charlatan".

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Lennon and Ono were injured in a car crash in June 1969, partway through recording Abbey Road. According to journalist Barry Miles, a bed with a microphone was then installed in the studio so that Ono could make artistic comments about the album.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=552}} Miles thought Ono's continual presence in the studio during the latter part of the Beatles' career put strain on Lennon's relationship with the other band members. George Harrison got into a shouting match with Lennon after Ono took one of his chocolate digestive biscuits without asking.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08udovitt.html|title=Let Us Now Praise Famous Men|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Mim|last=Udovitch|date=October 8, 2000|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310222925/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08udovitt.html|archive-date=March 10, 2014}}

The English press dubbed Ono "the woman who broke up the Beatles",{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=40}} which had been foreseen by Paul McCartney in 1969 during the group's rehearsals for their film and album Let It Be, when he said "It's going to be such an incredible sort of comical thing, like, in fifty years' time, you know: 'They broke up 'cause Yoko sat on an amp.{{'"}} In an interview with Dick Cavett, Lennon explicitly denied that Ono broke up the Beatles,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM|title=John Lennon-on Yoko Breaking Up the Beatles|via=YouTube|date=January 11, 2008|access-date=August 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112025120/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM|archive-date=November 12, 2015}} and Harrison said during an interview with Cavett that the problems within the group began long before Ono came onto the scene.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP84g-yn58|title=George harrison talks about Lennon, Paul, yoko ono and beatles beakup|via=YouTube|date=December 5, 1990|access-date=August 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328214448/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP84g-yn58|archive-date=March 28, 2016}} Ono herself has said that the Beatles broke up without any direct involvement from her, adding "I don't think I could have tried even to break them up."{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=41}}

While the Beatles were together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon–McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two (except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which originally credited the songs to McCartney–Lennon). In 1976, McCartney released a live album called Wings over America, which credited the five Beatles tracks as P. McCartney–J. Lennon compositions, but neither Lennon nor Ono objected. After Lennon's death, however, McCartney again attempted to change the order to McCartney–Lennon for songs that were solely or predominantly written by him, such as "Yesterday",{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2588861.stm|title=Talking Point | Lennon-McCartney: Who do you give credit to?|work=BBC News|date=December 23, 2002|access-date=April 18, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407163230/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2588861.stm|archive-date=April 7, 2012}}{{clarify|date=August 2020|reason=unclear referent; primarily written by Lennon or McCartney?}} but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive, and the surviving former Beatle argued that such an agreement never existed. A spokesman for Ono said McCartney was making "an attempt to rewrite history".

In a Rolling Stone interview in 1987, Ono pointed out McCartney's place in the disintegration of the band.{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/yoko-ono-blames-paul-mccartney-beatles-breakup-979558|title=Yoko Ono Blames Paul McCartney for the Beatles' Breakup?|last=Vultaggio|first=Maria|date=December 29, 2012|newspaper=International Business Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231180229/http://www.ibtimes.com/yoko-ono-blames-paul-mccartney-beatles-breakup-979558|archive-date=December 31, 2012}} On the 1998 John Lennon anthology, Lennon Legend, the composer credit of "Give Peace a Chance" was changed to "John Lennon" from its original composing credit of "Lennon–McCartney". Although Lennon wrote the song during his tenure with the Beatles, it was both written and recorded without the help of the band, and released as Lennon's first independent single under the "Plastic Ono Band" moniker. Lennon subsequently expressed regret that he had not given co-writing credit to Ono instead, who actually helped him write the song. In 2002, McCartney released another live album, Back in the U.S. Live 2002, and the 19 Beatles songs included are described as "composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon", which reignited the debate over credits with Ono. Her spokesperson Elliott Mintz called it "an attempt to rewrite history". Nevertheless, Ono did not sue.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73102/update-mccartney-reignites-beatles-credit-controversy|title=Update: McCartney Reignites Beatles Credit Controversy|magazine=Billboard|access-date=February 14, 2014|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004204132/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73102/update-mccartney-reignites-beatles-credit-controversy|archive-date=October 4, 2014}}

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean to create the song "Hiroshima Sky Is Always Blue", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city. Ono publicly compared Lennon to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Antonio Salieri.Garcia, Gilbert. (January 27, 2003) "[http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/index.html The ballad of Paul and Yoko] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619034926/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/index.html |date=June 19, 2009 }}". Salon. Retrieved April 4, 2011. This remark infuriated McCartney's wife Linda, who was dying from breast cancer at the time. When Linda died less than a year later, McCartney did not invite Ono to his wife's memorial service in Manhattan.{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Precious|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/eternal-flame-1-1373461|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419170443/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/eternal-flame-1-1373461|archive-date=April 19, 2019|title=Eternal flame|date=May 19, 2002|newspaper=The Scotsman|access-date=March 12, 2020|url-status=live|location=Edinburgh, UK}}

Accepting an award at the 2005 Q Awards, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting. She had responded, "You're a good songwriter. It's not June with spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs."{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/yoko-ono-claims-she-was-misquoted-over-mccartney-outburst-319727.html?origin=internalSearch|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|title=Yoko Ono claims she was misquoted over McCartney outburst|first=Ian|last=Herbert|date=October 15, 2005|access-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225032027/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/yoko-ono-claims-she-was-misquoted-over-mccartney-outburst-319727.html?origin=internalSearch|archive-date=February 25, 2014}}

In an October 2010 interview, Ono spoke about Lennon's "lost weekend" and her subsequent reconciliation with him. She credited McCartney with helping save her marriage to John. "I want the world to know that it was a very touching thing that [Paul] did for John."{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/cant-buy-me-love-yoko-tells-how-paul-saved-her-marriage-to-john-l9twn3mhzzn|title=Can't buy me love: Yoko tells how Paul saved her marriage to John|newspaper=The Times|date=October 9, 2010|access-date=September 3, 2013|archive-date=December 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219073553/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article2759900.ece|url-status=live}} While visiting Ono in March 1974, McCartney, on leaving, asked "[W]hat will make you come back to John?" McCartney subsequently passed her response to Lennon while visiting him in Los Angeles. "John often said he didn't understand why Paul did this for us, but he did." In 2012, McCartney revealed that he did not blame Ono for the breakup of the Beatles and credited Ono with inspiring much of Lennon's post-Beatles work.{{cite magazine|title=Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono Didn't Break Up the Beatles|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles-20121029|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=October 29, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901124457/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles-20121029?fb_action_ids=10151294334734245&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582|archive-date=September 1, 2016}}

{{main|John Lennon#Julian Lennon}}

Ono had a difficult relationship with her stepson Julian, but the relationship improved over the years. He expressed disappointment at her handling of Lennon's estate, and at the difference between his upbringing and Sean's, adding, "when Dad gave up music for a couple of years to be with Sean, why couldn't he do that with me?"{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8933287/Julian-Lennon-blames-father-John-for-his-lack-of-children.html|title=Julian Lennon blames father John for his lack of children|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=December 4, 2011|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327161916/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8933287/Julian-Lennon-blames-father-John-for-his-lack-of-children.html|archive-date=March 27, 2014}} Julian was left out of his father's will, and he battled Ono in court for years, settling in 1996 for an unspecified amount that the media reported was "believed to" be in the area of £20 million, which Julian has denied.

He has said that he is his "mother's boy", which Ono has cited as the reason why she was never able to get close to him: "Julian and I tried to be friends. Of course, if he's too friendly with me, then I think that it hurts his other relatives. He was very loyal to his mother. That was the first thing that was in his mind." Nevertheless, she and Sean attended the opening of Julian's photo exhibition at the Morrison Hotel in New York City in 2010, appearing for the first time for photos with Cynthia and Julian. She also promoted the exhibition on her website.

Julian and his half-brother Sean are close.

Mary Beth Edelson's Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper (1972) appropriated Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, with the heads of notable women artists collaged over the heads of Christ and his apostles; Ono was among those notable women artists. This image, addressing the role of religious and art historical iconography in the subordination of women, became "one of the most iconic images of the feminist art movement".{{cite web|url=http://drawingproject.frostartmuseum.org/mary-beth-edelson/|title=Mary Beth Edelson|work=The Frost Art Museum Drawing Project|access-date=January 11, 2014|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615102555/http://drawingproject.frostartmuseum.org/mary-beth-edelson/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=1321|title=Mary Beth Adelson|work=Clara – Database of Women Artists|publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=January 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110213429/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=1321|archive-date=January 10, 2014|url-status=dead}}

The post-punk rock band Death of Samantha, founded in 1983, named themselves after a song from Ono's 1972 album Approximately Infinite Universe, also called "Death of Samantha".Christopher Evans, "Death of Samantha: Notes from the Underground", The Plain Dealer Magazine, February 22, 1987, p. 6.

Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies' debut single was "Be My Yoko Ono", first released in 1990 and later appearing on their 1992 album Gordon.{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Barenaked+Ladies/_/Be+My+Yoko+Ono|title=Barenaked Ladies: Be My Yoko Ono|publisher=last.fm|access-date=February 7, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105123126/http://www.last.fm/music/Barenaked+Ladies/_/Be+My+Yoko+Ono|archive-date=November 5, 2012}} The lyrics are "a shy entreaty to a potential girlfriend, caged in terms that self-deflatingly compare himself to one of pop music's foremost geniuses". It also has a "sarcastic imitation of Yoko Ono's unique vocal style in the bridge".{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/be-my-yoko-ono-mt0006937715|title=Barenaked Ladies: Be My Yoko Ono (Overview)|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 7, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129225235/http://www.allmusic.com/song/be-my-yoko-ono-mt0006937715|archive-date=January 29, 2014}}

In 2000, American folk singer Dar Williams recorded a song titled "I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono".{{cite news|url=http://www.discogs.com/Dar-Williams-I-Wont-Be-Your-Yoko-Ono/release/3762272|title=Dar Williams – I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono|publisher=discogs|access-date=February 7, 2014|archive-date=February 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218091059/https://www.discogs.com/Dar-Williams-I-Wont-Be-Your-Yoko-Ono/release/3762272|url-status=live}} Bryan Wawzenek of the website Ultimate Classic Rock described the song as "us[ing] John and Yoko as a starting point for exploring love, and particularly, love between artists".{{cite web|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yoko-ono-inspired-songs/|title=Top 10 Songs Inspired by Yoko Ono|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=June 24, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619103724/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yoko-ono-inspired-songs/|archive-date=June 19, 2017}}

The British band Elbow mentioned Ono in their song "New York Morning" from their 2014 album The Take Off and Landing of Everything ("Oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk / It's the modern Rome and folk are nice to Yoko"). In response Ono posted an open letter to the band on her website, thanking them and reflecting on her and Lennon's relationship with the city.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/elbow/75881|title=Yoko Ono thanks Elbow for new song 'New York Morning' in open letter|author=|date=March 5, 2014|website=NME|access-date=April 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308151301/http://www.nme.com/news/elbow/75881 |archive-date=March 8, 2014|url-status=live}} In Public Enemy's song "Bring the Noise", Chuck D and Flavor Flav rap, "Beat is for Sonny Bono/Beat is for Yoko Ono!"{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dancinginyourhea0000sant|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/dancinginyourhea0000sant/page/118 118]|quote=beat is for sonny bono beat is for yoko ono.|title=Dancing in Your Head: Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Beyond|first=Gene|last=Santoro |date=December 29, 1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195101232 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite web|author=John Leland |title=Singles |magazine=SPIN |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baaFL4PyjS0C&q=beat+is+for+sonny+bono+beat+is+for+yoko+ono&pg=PA34 |date=February 1, 1988 |via=Google Books}} Ono's name also appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic", and the Tally Hall song "&".{{cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/hot-topic-lyrics-le-tigre-who-is.html|title=57 Champions of Queer Feminism, All Name-Dropped in One Impossibly Catchy Song|first=Tammy|last=Oler|date=October 31, 2019|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=December 8, 2020|archive-date=November 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129211533/https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/hot-topic-lyrics-le-tigre-who-is.html|url-status=live}}

In The Simpsons' episode 1 of season 5, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Barney who is in Homer's band, has creative disputes within the group when he falls in love with a Japanese conceptual artist who resembles Yoko Ono.{{cite video |people=Kirkland, Mark |date=2004 |title=The Simpsons season 5 DVD commentary for the episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" |medium=DVD |publisher=20th Century Fox}}

Ono was a central theme in English comedian James Acaster's 2013 show Lawnmower, which was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show.{{Cite news |last=Logan |first=Brian |date=2013-08-15 |title=James Acaster – Edinburgh festival 2013 review |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/15/james-acaster-edinburgh-2013-review |access-date=2023-07-03 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703222616/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/15/james-acaster-edinburgh-2013-review |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Premier |title=2013 Nominee – James Acaster – Best Comedy Show |url=https://www.comedyawards.co.uk/best-comedy-show/2013/james-acaster-2013 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Edinburgh Comedy Awards |language=en-GB |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703222619/https://www.comedyawards.co.uk/best-comedy-show/2013/james-acaster-2013 |url-status=live }}

The anime Detective Conan features a recurring character named Yoko Okino, who is a pop star and actress based on Yoko Ono.

{{Main|Yoko Ono discography}}

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:: Solo

• Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
• Fly (1971)
• Approximately Infinite Universe (1973)
• Feeling the Space (1973)
• Season of Glass (1981)
• It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)
• Starpeace (1985)
• Rising (1995)
• A Story (1997)
• Blueprint for a Sunrise (2001)
• Between My Head and the Sky (2009)
• Yokokimthurston (2012)
• Take Me to the Land of Hell (2013)
• Warzone (2018)Scancarelli, Derek,

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/derekscancarelli/2018/10/19/yoko-ono-discusses-her-new-album-warzone/ "Yoko Ono Discusses Her New Album 'Warzone'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219015938/https://www.forbes.com/sites/derekscancarelli/2018/10/19/yoko-ono-discusses-her-new-album-warzone/ |date=February 19, 2019 }}, Forbes, October 19, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2019.

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::with John Lennon

• Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968)
• Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions (1969)
• Wedding Album (1969)
• Live Peace in Toronto 1969 (1969)
• Some Time in New York City (1972)
• Double Fantasy (1980)
• Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue (1983)
• Milk and Honey (1984)

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• Grapefruit (1964)
• Summer of 1980 (1983)
• ただの私 (Tada-no Watashi – Just Me!) (1986)
• The John Lennon Family Album (1990)
• Instruction Paintings (1995)
• Grapefruit Juice (1998)
• YES YOKO ONO (2000)
• Odyssey of a Cockroach (2005)
• Imagine Yoko (2005)
• Memories of John Lennon (editor) (2005)
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories From the Japan Earthquake (contributor) (2011)
• 郭知茂 Vocal China Forever Love Song
• Acorn (2013){{cite book|last=Ono|first=Yoko|title=Acorn|url=http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/acorn/|access-date=July 30, 2013|year=2013|publisher=OR Books|isbn=978-1-939293-23-7|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713092324/http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/acorn/|archive-date=July 13, 2013}} Note {{ISBN|978-1-939293-23-7}} (paperback), {{ISBN|978-1-939293-24-4}} (ebook), but {{as of|2013|07|30|lc=y}}, it is only available [http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/acorn/ directly from the publisher]
• [https://europeanculturalcentre.eu/var/gallery/file/b6ac0febd2bd75a5cbb813a6f3f684fd.pdf ”ARISING]” This book is the documentation of Personal Structures Art Projects #09. Published by European Cultural Centre.

• Sky TV (1966)
• Blueprint for the Sunrise (2000, 28 min)
• Onochord (2004, continuous loop){{cite web|last=Ono|first=Yoko|url=http://vimeo.com/1968140|title=Yoko Ono: Onochord on Vimeo|access-date=September 14, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305003834/http://vimeo.com/1968140|archive-date=March 5, 2010}}

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| rowspan=7|1982

| rowspan=3|Billboard Music Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1982/bbyearend.htm|title=Rock On The Net: 1982 Billboard Year-End Chart-Toppers|website=www.rockonthenet.com|access-date=April 27, 2020|archive-date=October 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023194640/http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1982/bbyearend.htm|url-status=live}}

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| Top Billboard 200 Artist

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| Top Billboard 200 Artist – Duo/Group

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| rowspan=3|Double Fantasy (with John Lennon)

| Top Billboard 200 Album

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| International Album of the Year

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| rowspan=3|Grammy Awards

| Album of the Year

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| "(Just Like) Starting Over"

| Record of the Year

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| "Walking on Thin Ice"

| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female

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| 1985

| Grammy Awards

| Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue) (with John Lennon)

| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording

| {{nom}}

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| 2001

| Grammy Awards

| Gimme Some Truth – The Making Of John Lennon's Imagine Album

| Best Long Form Music Video

| {{won}}

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| 2009

| Golden Lion Awards

| rowspan=8|Herself

| Lifetime Achievement

| {{won}}

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| 2010

| Glamour Awards

| Outstanding Contribution

| {{won}}

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| rowspan=2|2013

| O Music Awards

| Digital Genius Award

| {{won}}

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| ASCAP Awards

| ASCAP Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award

| {{won}}

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| 2014

| Shorty Awards

| Best in Music

| {{nom}}

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| rowspan=2|2015

| Observer Ethical Awards

| Lifetime Achievement Award

| {{won}}

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| Attitude Awards{{cite web|url=http://attitude.co.uk/article/attitude-awards-2015-flashback-all-the-winners-from-last-years-star-studded-ceremony/12283/|title=Attitude Awards 2015 flashback: All the winners from last year's star-studded ceremony|date=September 27, 2016|website=Attitude.co.uk|access-date=July 19, 2021|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720192551/https://attitude.co.uk/article/attitude-awards-2015-flashback-all-the-winners-from-last-years-star-studded-ceremony/12283/|url-status=live}}

| Icon Award

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| 2016

| NME Awards

| NME Inspiration Award

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| 2022

|Primetime Emmy Award

| The Beatles: Get Back

| Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series

| {{won}}

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• List of peace activists
• An Anthology of Chance Operations
• List of music artists by net worth

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• {{Cite book|last=Ayres|first=Ian|title=Van Gogh's Ear: Best World Poetry & Prose (Volume 4 includes Yoko Ono's poetry/artwork)|year=2005|publisher=French Connection|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-914853-03-3}}
• Osaka, Eriko, Laurie Anderson and Thierry Raspail. Yoko Ono. London: Phaidon, 2024. {{ISBN|978-0-7148-7663-4}}
• Beram, Nell, and Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky. Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies. New York: Amulet, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-4197-0444-4}}
• Bocaro, Madeline. In Your Mind - The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono, (Conceptual Books 2021), {{ISBN|978-1-6678-1309-7}}
• Clayson, Alan et al. Woman: The Incredible Life of Yoko Ono
• Fawcett, Anthony. John Lennon: One Day at a Time (Grove Press, 1976)
• Goldman, Albert. The Lives of John Lennon
• Green, John. Dakota Days
• Haskell, Barbara. Yoko Ono: Arias and Objects. Exhibition Catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991.
• Hendricks, Geoffrey. Fluxus Codex
• Hendricks, Geoffrey. Yoko Ono: Arias and Objects
• Hopkins, Jerry. Yoko Ono
• Klin, Richard, and Lily Prince, photos. "'I Remembered Carrying a Glass Key to Open the Sky.'" In Something to Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics in America. (Leapfrog Press, 2011)
• Millett, Kate. Flying
• Norman, Philip, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vNA4j2L0hqAC John Lennon : the life], 1st ed., New York : Ecco, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-06-075401-3}}.
• Norman, Philip, Days in the life : John Lennon remembered, London : Century, 1990. {{ISBN|0-7126-3922-5}}
• Munroe, Alexandra. Yoko Ono's Bashō: A Conversation, published in Yoko Ono: Half-a-Wind Show; A Retrospective. April 14, 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151203092453/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/yoko-onos-basho-a-conversation/ Yoko Ono’s Basho: A Conversation with Alexandra Munroe]
• Munroe, Alexandra. Spirit of YES: The Art and Life of Yoko Ono, published in YES YOKO ONO, 2000. [http://www.alexandramunroe.com/spirit-of-yes-the-art-and-life-of-yoko-ono-2/ Spirit of YES: The Art and Life of Yoko Ono] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307183246/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/spirit-of-yes-the-art-and-life-of-yoko-ono-2/ |date=March 7, 2016 }}
• Munroe, Alexandra. Why War? Yoko by Yoko at the Serpentine, published in Yoko Ono: To the Light. 2012. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160804053326/http://www.alexandramunroe.com/why-war-yoko-by-yoko-at-the-serpentine/ Why War? Yoko by Yoko at the Serpentine -]
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich. The Conversation Series: Yoko Ono, Walther König, Cologne, 2010.
• Rumaker, Michael. The Butterfly
• Seaman, Frederic. The Last Days of John Lennon
• Sheff, David. Last Interview: John Lennon and Yoko Ono New York: Pan Books, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-330-48258-5}}.
• Wenner, Jann, ed. The Ballad of John and Yoko
• Wiener, Jon. Come Together: John Lennon in His Time (Random House, 1984)
• Yoon, Jean. The Yoko Ono Project

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• [https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/rupaul-performance-art-yoko-ono Abbi Jacobson and RuPaul discuss Yoko Ono's Cut Piece] on A Piece of Work
• [https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/yoko-ono-cut-piece-1964 MoMA Learning ]
• [https://www.moma.org/artists/4410 Yoko Ono in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art]
• [http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/fluxus.htm Fluxus Performance Workbook]
• [https://ecc-italy.eu/exhibitions/personalstructures2013 2013 ART]

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