Last Wishes on Grand Avenue, Yoko Ono’s Broad Retrospective Enters Its Final Days
Visitors have until October 11 to hammer a nail, crawl into a black bag and tie a wish to an olive tree.
Music of the Mind, Yoko Ono’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California, closes at The Broad at 221 South Grand Avenue on October 11. Organized with Tate Modern in London, the show opened in May and traces more than seven decades of her work, from text-based pieces of the 1950s and 1960s to recent large-scale installations.
The museum built it around her instruction pieces, which hand the finishing of the work to the audience. Visitors are invited to tie a wish to an olive tree, hammer a nail into a painting or write a note about their mother. Time Out called it perhaps the Broad’s most participatory exhibition to date.
The nail piece re-creates the work that occasioned Ono’s first meeting with John Lennon. Visitors can also crawl into a black bag and strike a pose for Bag Piece, and outside on East West Bank Plaza, the Broad’s olive trees have become Wish Tree for Los Angeles, their branches tied with wishes left by the public.
“The only sound that exists to me is the sound of the mind. My works are only to induce music of the mind in people,” Ono has said. Joanne Heyler, the Broad’s founding director and president, put it this way when the show was announced. “For more than seven decades, Yoko Ono has expanded the possibilities of art as a force for connection and change,” she said.
Tickets for the special exhibition are $21, according to Time Out, and entry is free on Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m. Weekend hours run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the exhibition closes October 11.
