McCartney Times

Japanese artist Yoko Ono, blamed by many for breaking up the Beatles, is slowly being acknowledged as one of the most influential avant-garde artists of her time. An exhibition at the Zurich Museum of Fine Arts offers a broad sample of her artistic evolution.

In the mainstream narrative of pop culture Yoko Ono, who turned 89 last month, is nothing short of a witch who cast a spell over John Lennon and was responsible for the Beatles splitting up in 1969.

British tabloids portrayed her as an enigmatic Asian woman shrieking in the background of celebrity rock concerts. Outside the conceptual and pop art circles of the Sixties and Seventies, her work – and its influence on the Fluxus movement (see below) – was barely mentioned.

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Source: Yoko, an artist in her own-o right – SWI swissinfo.ch