Monday, January 12, 2026

Art History - Yoko Ono

In my 2025-2026 school year plan, I decided that our January artist study would be Yoko Ono. (Here's the complete list of all the artists we've learned about so far.) So now let's dive into some resources and my planning notes:


Yoko Ono
1933 -


also

Yoko Ono page at Wikipedia

Yoko Ono page at tate.org.uk

articles at the New York Times


Yoko Ono: One Woman Show: 1960–1971
MoMA (includes recordings of her voice)


Instructions for Paintings, 1961-62

"Forget It"

All About Yoko Ono's Husbands: Toshi Ichiyanagi, Anothony Cox and John Lennon

Plastic Ono Band, 1968

Bed-In, 1969



week of Jan 5:

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week of Jan 12:

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    look more closely at the instructions on the wall behind Yoko Ono at the start of that video... and consider whether we were completely misunderstanding her performance... it's not Music; it's Art

      ”Scream. 1. against the wind 2. against the wall 3. against the sky”

    read blog post From a Whisper to a Scream: Following Yoko Ono’s Instructions

    discuss the idea of "instruction pieces" as art

    decide to turn the dogwood tree into a Wish Tree and invite parents, friends, and neighbors to add wishes to it

      “Make a wish. Write it down on a piece of paper. Fold it and tie it around a branch of the wish tree. Ask your friend to do the same. Keep wishing.”

    Yoko Ono is our January artist because I put them in order of birth... but it turns out very well to do a Wish Tree at the start of a new year!

    "Wish Tree" (digital version)


week of Jan 19:

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week of Jan 26:

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