Marrying John Lennon brought Yoko Ono a dizzying degree of reflected fame. But her life story is nervy, compelling and shockingly sad both with and without him. A week after their wedding, John Lennon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ono, who had been married to Lennon for 11 years up to that point (Dec. 8, 1980), "pleaded" with the doctor to tell her Lennon was ...

A further worry: is she even knowable? How seriously does she want to be taken? To approach her life and work is to enter a forcefield that will send the critic or biographer’s navigation spinning, ...

A recent biography helps shed light on her life before and after John Lennon—making a case for the primacy of her art and its lasting influence. Yoko Ono, 1967. (Watford / Mirrorpix / Mirrorpix via ...

For most of her long life, Yoko Ono has been reviled by many rock critics and music fans as the dragon lady who glommed on to a lovesick John Lennon and broke up the Beatles. According to a new ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On April 3, 1961, Yoko Ono’s piece “Of a Grapefruit in the World of Park” was performed at the Village Gate in New York City. The New York Times covered the show; in the photograph that ran in the ...

In 1980, at the relatively tender age of 24, David Sheff landed a journalistic coup in the form of a multipart interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The famous couple had just ended a period of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marrying John Lennon brought Yoko Ono a dizzying degree of reflected fame. But her life story is nervy, compelling and shockingly ...

What is Yoko Ono? Is she the artist whose “Music of the Mind” concept was honoured with a major exhibition by the Tate in 2024? Or the author of Wrapping Piece in 1965, in which she swaddled an ...