yoko ono was always ahead of her time. but her themes wore feminism the plight of refugees are more urgent now than ever. and yoko ono's work we're all asked to take part. we're all artists who can change the world. i think this exhibit with a lot of preconceptions about yoko ono but i'm coming away after having seen all this work with an understanding of how groundbreaking how how influential and also how funny she is as an artist and that you only really deserves her own place in our history. only as work arising. made years before me to abuse women sent in photos of their eyes paired with personal stories of their abuse. in life sing one can discover a different feminist and fascinating yoko ono. well it seems you were just surprised to him i should be impressed i say yeah i was i said i didn't really know what to expect going going in and becoming out i realize i know the image i had of yoko ono was incredibly ignorant first off but also i guess really sexist i mean the idea that i only. connected her with this famous

that yoko ono and john lennon met over it was at an exhibit in london and john asked yoko if he could hammer a nail into the artwork yoko said yes but it's going to cost you five shelly's so john said well i'll pay you five imaginary show shillings and then i'll hammer in an imaginary nail now i'll have five shillings but i do have a hammer and i have a nail and i have a hammer and am made my catholic wife forgive me. violence and the murder of john lennon goes through this installation called the family portrait. and the whole political will shrink played once the idea of the piece is to look through the hole and see violence in perspective of the victim. her art is one of ideas not a static a room of makeshift coffins built like those after a massacre trees represent rebirth john hendricks yoko ono's long time friend thinks the world is finally recognizing her contribution she better basically invented a new set of conceptual ideas long before others did for instance. instructions for paving. she didn't need to make the paintings just struck transfer payments made to sixty. yoko ono

but let's get straight underway with the yoko ono exhibition and scott is just back from the opening and in a way actually there's a connection there she's also an iconic figure in rock n roll ready yeah you know really yeah of course i mean but it's interesting because of before this exhibit i think i was thinking about yoko ono and what i what i think about her and i guess i mean i think we all sort of an image of her but it's really directly connected to you know her ladyship with with john lennon and i always really if i'm honest i thought of her more or less just the wife of jon benet you know and you know the people the person the people of the beatles on the or whatever but and the one who then went on to make some really strange music with john lennon and the plastic ono band if you remember that so that was my idea going into this exhibit but the this exhibit from leipzig is called pieces power and it displaced sixty years of her artwork i didn't even know she had that much artwork to show.

but let's get straight underway with the yoko ono exhibition and scott is just back from the opening and in a way actually there's a connection there she's also an iconic figure in rock'n'roll ready yeah you know really yeah of course i mean but it's interesting because before this exhibit i think i was thinking about yoko ono and what i what i think about her and i guess i mean i think we all sort of an image of her but it's really directly connected to you know her ladyship with with john lennon and i always really if i'm honest i thought of her more or less just the wife of john by the you know and you know the people the person the people of the beatles and or whatever but and the one who then went on to make some really strange music with john lennon and the plastic ono band if you remember that so that was my idea going into this exhibit but the this exhibit from leipzig it's called pieces power and it displaced sixty years of her artwork i didn't even know she had that much artwork to show.

hello welcome to our culture and today a new exhibition of works from yoko ono has just opened in my colleague scott roxboro was there and he'll be here in a minute to talk about it but also coming up. play it aloud at the metropolitan museum in new york tranch rock'n'roll seismic impact on our culture through iconic rock instruments. but let's get straight underway with the yoko ono exhibition and scott is just back from the opening and in a way actually there's a connection there she's also an iconic figure in rock and roll ready yeah you know really yeah of course i mean but it's interesting because before this exhibit i think i was thinking about yoko ono and what i what i think about her and i guess i mean i think we all sort of an image of her but it's really directly connected to you know her ladyship with with john lennon and i always really if i'm honest i thought of her more or less as just the wife of a job by the you know and you know the people the person the people of the beatles on or whatever but and the one who then went on to make some really strange music with john

. >> the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. beatles, money broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier and heavier beatle these days and when the kids come to his concert these days they don't scream, they listen. >> it was focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. >> mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album. >> it's going to be called ringo's reviewer. >> i sell records, it doesn't matter if they've got the beatles or not. >> ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the '70s and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called "all things must pass." maybe the best beatles' solo album of all time. ♪ i don't need a p