Yoko Ono Born: Avant-Garde Artist and Peace Activist
Yoko Ono was already a well-established conceptual artist in New York and Tokyo when she met John Lennon in 1966 at an exhibition of her work. He climbed a ladder to read a small card on the ceiling. The word on it was Yes. He came back the next day. Within two years the Beatles were breaking up and the public had decided she was the cause. The actual cause was four adults who'd been living inside an impossible situation for a decade.
February 18, 1933
93 years ago
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