yoko ono at 79
still an ingenue even approaching 80, she dishes on age and art and tweeting.
Next Saturday Yoko Ono turns 79. In June she will come to London to launch a retrospective of her work at the Serpentine, which will include work she’s making right now. “My work’s getting better, I hope,” she says. “If it’s not, why do it?”
A keen tweeter – “it’s almost like a haiku, but involving other people in a participation act” – Ono refuses even to recognise the concept of age. “Some people are old when they’re 18 and some people are young when they’re 90. You can’t define people by whatever society determines as their age. Time is a concept that human beings created.”
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