The instructions were simple, but take years to complete. One night in London more than 50 years ago, Yoko Ono broke a vase on stage before her audience. She then asked them to pick up a piece, one by ...

Brow Beat is following the Beatles in “real time,” 50 years later, from their first chart-topper to their final rooftop concert. Every once in a while we check in with Yoko Ono and see what she was up ...

Polish an orange. Grieve for a made-up friend. Inherit a dead passenger’s luggage. As Ono’s ‘artwork instructions’ delight crowds at the Tate, our writer carries them out. Will he end up enlightened – ...

In Yoko Ono: Poetry, Painting, Music, Objects, Events, and Wish Trees (May 10 to August 22), the Poetry Foundation spotlights Grapefruit, a lyrical book of life instructions that the artist and ...