To a man who had trouble locating the show, the interviewer conceded, “It’s here, it’s just mostly in people’s minds.”The man nodded.
“Yes,” he said, “I thought that might be the case.”These were some of the reactions to Ono’s “Museum of Modern (F)art,” a self-appointed MoMA debut, staged without the museum’s permission.
It was up to visitors to find them, the notice said, perhaps by following the errant wafts of fragrance drifting past the Pollocks, Picassos or Van Goghs.
The show, “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” contains more than 200 works spanning seven decades.
Like “Museum of Modern (F)art,” which is part of the retrospective, most of those works are in people’s minds.
Persons:
Yoko Ono, “, it’s, ”, Van Goghs, John Lennon
Organizations:
Museum of Modern, “, of, MoMA, Tate Modern
Locations:
Tokyo, London