Her ex-husband kidnapped their daughter and went on the run with her, and despite all John Lennon’s wealth and fame they couldn’t find her and she didn’t see her child again for more than 20 years.

And then her husband was murdered.

She got herself up and kept making art.
Reposted from James Cooray Smith
Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

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