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Interesting.

I've moved a little on some modern installations but I'm not impressed by this.

At least she got a reaction.

Maybe that's what she wants.

Even bad publicity can be good publicity.

Roger

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Look at this

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4325894/Blanksy-exhibition-features-invisible-art.html

Roger

Dear Friends,
Here is the full post. So far I have avoided showing itr, but now I guess it can be brought to you.
Hugs,
Luis Miguel Goitizolo

Yoko Ono's Wacky "To The Light" Art Exhibit

As John Lennon would say, "Oh Yoko! In the middle of a high-class artspace I call your name..." After focusing more on music in recent years—where she's become an unlikely dance-music heroine—Yoko Ono has returned to visual art with a London display titled "To the Light," her first public exhibit in a decade. And yes, Beatlemaniacs, her late husband plays a posthumous role in it. The subtitle of one of their classic songs, "War is Over," plays a key part in one installation of Ono's at the Serpentine Gallery. Another mixed-media piece features a slow-motion video of Lennon smiling, which ties into an ongoing project of Ono's in which she says she's hoping to get a snapshot of every person in the world flashing a similarly happy expression. Frown is over, if you want it! Below is photographic preview of what London art lovers are seeing in Ono's exhibition. -- Chris Willman

Before there was the logo for the Beatles-owned Apple Records, there was Ono's own strikingly similar green apple, in 1966, which gets a reprise in this exhibition. (photo: Dave M. Bennett)

No one should ever accuse Ono of not being earthy. She may not have actually broken up the Beatles, but she broke a pile of dirt into three distinct mounds—helpfully labeled "Country A," "Country B," and "Country C"—in front of a vintage-ish "War is Over!" poster. Imagine the world's nations living in separate but equal harmony? It's easy if you try. (photo: Dave M. Bennett, Getty Images)

The (presumably) anti-war theme continues with "Helmets," which has the titular protective headgear suspended upside-down from the ceiling by wires, with jigsaw puzzle pieces inside. Does Ono mean to suggest that every man is a puzzle? Or that war scrambles soldiers' brains? (photo: Dan Kitwood, Getty Images)

Among the different videos on continuous loops in the installation is a slow-motion film of Lennon smiling that dates to 1968. Not coincidentally, probably, Ono is concurrently launching an audience-participation project in which she's urging everyone in the entire world to send her a photo of themselves smiling, with the hashtag of #smilesfilm. You may say she's a dreamer, if she thinks she can get even a tiny fraction of the 7 billion people in...

Ono's "A Family Album" resembles an old-school turntable, but with a hand-decorated spool of thread replacing the spindle and a different kind of needle in place of the one you'd drop on vinyl. Sew. what? (photo: Dan Kitwood, Getty Images)

I am open to strange and thought provoking art.

I would love to paint like Salvador Dali for example. I aim to paint surrealist stuff myself. Give your viewer a challenge to understand by all means but at least be skilled enough to paint something recogniseable.

I don't begin to understand all of Dali's motives or reasons but, boy, could that man paint and produce wonderous images.

As for this Yoko rubbish, no, sorry, wasted on me. It's a case of using a well known name, being avant garde and keep self-promoting. Some idiot somewhere will take you seriously or worse see a way of making money from it.

In my opinion she has as much talent as a piece of used cardboard and is far less useful.

You may have guessed? I don't value her very much.

Roger

She's just riding her fame (or her late husband's fame) once again. Without that, she wouldn't be in any gallery.

She could just prop her chin on a pedestal and call it "wizened apple" and that could be better than just plopping an apple there.

I have bags of sand from New Jersey and Florida and Michigan, are they art?

I have rocks from several different states and different parts of Canada, are they art?

I have puzzle pieces that my cats chewed on, are they comparable to someone's brain, as in chewing on problems?

I've had the idea of taking cellphone photos of buttcracks at the grocery store, for some reason, that's the place to see a lot of upper unexpected tush. Grocery shopping and UUT. Is it art?