Editing Yoko Ono (section)

==Artwork==
===''Cut Piece'', 1964===
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Ono was a pioneer of conceptual art and performance art. A seminal performance work is ''[[Cut Piece 1964|Cut Piece]]'', first performed in 1964 at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in [[Kyoto|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.<ref name=MH158>{{harvnb|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=158}}</ref> 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 Centre, London|Africa Center]] as part of the [[Destruction in Art Symposium]] in 1966.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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."<ref name="MH158" />

Other performers of the piece have included Charlotte Moorman and John Hendricks.<ref name="MH158" /> 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".<ref name="Stan" /> In 2013, the Canadian singer Peaches reprised it at the multi-day Meltdown festival at the [[Southbank Centre]] in London, which Ono curated.<ref name="guML">{{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}}</ref>

===''Grapefruit'' book, 1964===
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Ono's small book titled ''[[Grapefruit (book)|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 (magazine)|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.<ref name=Whit/>

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]],<ref name="Grove">{{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}}</ref> that was nearly closed when it was besieged by excited Beatles fans, who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pang|first=May|title=Loving John|publisher=[[Warner Books]] (Paperback)|year=1983|isbn=978-0-446-37916-8}}</ref> It was her last major exhibition until 1989's ''[[Yoko Ono: Objects, Films]]'' retrospective at the Whitney.<ref name=Whit/>

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

===Do It Yourself Fluxfest, 1966===
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

===Experimental films, 1964–1972===
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}}<ref name=BioB>{{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)}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She also collaborated with Lennon on the film ''[[Fly (1970 film)|Fly]]'' (1970), the soundtrack of which appeared on her 1971 album ''[[Fly (Yoko Ono album)|Fly]]''; and on ''[[Up Your Legs Forever]]'', a quasi-sequel to ''No. 4''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In March 2004, the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts|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 (1965 film)|Satan's Bed]]''.<ref name=BioB/>

===''Wish Tree'', 1996–present===
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[[File:Yoko Ono Wish Tree B.JPG|thumb|right|Contributions to Yoko Ono's ''Wish Tree'' at [[Serpentine Galleries]], 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]];<ref>{{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}}</ref> St. Louis;<ref name=Blouin>{{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}}</ref> [[Wish Tree for Washington, DC|Washington, D.C.]]; San Francisco; [[Copenhagen]];<ref>{{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}}</ref> the [[Stanford University]] campus in [[Palo Alto, California]];<ref name=Stan/> Japan;<ref>{{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}}</ref> Venice;<ref>{{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}}</ref> Dublin;<ref name="Dub" /> and, Miami at the [[Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden]] in 2010.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> [[File:Imagine Peace Billboard Fort Myers FL Photo by Dawn Iraci.jpg|thumb|Billboard for ''Imagine Peace'']] 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> ''Imagine Peace'' was also installed in Houston in 2011 through the [[Deborah Colton Gallery]], returning in 2016.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

=== ''Earth Peace'', 2014 ===
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.<ref name="auto">{{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/}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

=== ''Skyladder'', 2014 ===
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"''<ref name="auto"/>''.''

=== ''Arising'', 2015 ===
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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> In this feminist work of art, female [[silicon]] bodies were burnt in the [[Venetian lagoon]], evoking the imagery of mythical [[Phoenix (mythology)|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."<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===''Skylanding'', 2016===
[[File:SkyLanding Jackson Park - 1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|''Skylanding'' – Jackson Park, Chicago]]
In October 2016, Ono unveiled her first permanent art installation in the United States; the collection is located in [[Jackson Park (Chicago)|Jackson Park, Chicago]] and promotes peace.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Ono was inspired during a visit to the Garden of the Phoenix in 2013 and feels a connection to the city of Chicago.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===''Refugee Boat'', 2019===
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Recognition and retrospectives===
[[File:'War Is Over! (if you want it) Yoko Ono' exhibition - Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (10867835755).jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|''War Is Over! (if you want it)''. Sydney, [[Museum of Contemporary Art Australia]], 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".<ref name=gp>{{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}}</ref> 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}} [[Daniel Richter (actor)|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, [[Parol|Fred DeAsis]], Peggy Guggenheim,{{sfn|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=82}} [[Betty Rollin]], [[Shusaku Arakawa]], [[Adrian Morris (painter)|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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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."<ref name=Whit>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.'"<ref>{{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}}</ref> The exhibition traveled to 13 museums in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Korea from 2000 through 2003.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
and the Skowhegan Medal for work in assorted media.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The next year, she was awarded the fifth MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts from the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2005, she received a lifetime achievement award from the [[Japan Society of New York]], which had hosted ''Yes Yoko Ono''<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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</ref> She also received a [[Golden Lion Award]] for lifetime achievement from the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2009.<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2012, Ono held a major exhibition of her work ''To The Light'' at the [[Serpentine Galleries]], London.<ref>[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</ref> She was also the winner of the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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]]<ref name="my.entertainment.yahoo.com"/><ref name=Krems/>
and travelled to Denmark's [[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art]],<ref name=Blouin/> Austria's Kunsthalle Krems, and Spain's [[Guggenheim Museum Bilbao]].<ref name=Krems>{{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}}</ref><ref name=SBank>{{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}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2015, Yoko Ono received the European Cultural Centre Art Award for her continuing efforts to promote "Imagine Peace".<ref>{{Cite web |title=ALL ECC AWARDS |url=https://ecc-italy.eu/eccaward/alleccawards |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=ecc-italy.eu}}</ref>