The parallels between Yoko Ono's 'Cut Piece' and Marina Abramović's harrowing 'Rhythm 0' are striking as both artists confronted violence in their work.

From an exhibition at the Japan Society, Yoko Ono performing “Cut Piece” at Carnegie Recital Hall, Manhattan, in March 1965. Audience members were invited up to snip off her clothing.

Yoko Ono, 1967. - Credit: Yoko Ono/Clay Perry A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono’s art, “Music of the Mind,” will open at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in October.

Yoko Ono, born on February 18, 1933, in Tokyo, Japan, is a multifaceted artist known for her work in performance art, music, and visual art, as well as her advocacy for peace.

Yoko Ono, 1967. Yoko Ono/Clay Perry A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono ‘s art, “Music of the Mind,” will open at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in October.

Yoko Ono, John Lennon's ... Ono’s art was interactive long before that was all the rage. In her landmark 1964 performance “Cut Piece,” she gave gallery visitors scissors and invited them to ...

The most recent Ono biography is “Yoko Ono: An Artful Life,” by Donald Brackett, a Canadian art and music critic. He didn’t talk to Ono, and there’s not much in the way of new reporting in ...

For decades, many have blamed Yoko Ono for breaking up the Beatles. But, according to a new book — “Yoko: ... Ono began recording music and displaying and performing her art.

“Yoko Ono is a wildly influential and significant figure in performance, conceptualism, music and activism,” Jamillah James, the MCA’s senior curator and organiser of the museum’s ...

Can You Imagine? The Art and Life of Yoko Ono Lisa Tolin, illus. by Yas Imamura. Atheneum, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8778-9 ...

A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono's art, "Music of the Mind," will open at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in October. The institution will display more than 200 pieces, covering a ...