The first large image you see when entering the first gallery of “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” the massive retrospective of Yoko Ono’s work currently on exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is the large reproduction poster for her debut performance at Carnegie Hall, which took place on Friday, November 24th, 1961. It’s adjacent to both “A Work to Be Stepped On” (self-explanatory!) as well as “Waterdrop Painting (Version 1),” where the artwork is positioned on the floor beneath a water bottle. A nearby label explains that the work will be “activated intermittently” by staff.

The exhibition displays over 200 different works drawn from the multiple disciplines Ono has engaged with across almost seven decades, whether film, music, conceptual or performance art, and also includes

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