{"id":842,"date":"2009-07-23T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/yoko_ono_continues_to_evolve\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T23:18:13","slug":"yoko_ono_continues_to_evolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/yoko_ono_continues_to_evolve.html","title":{"rendered":"The Yoko Ono continues to evolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=13787\"><i>Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949-78<\/i><\/a> at the Seattle Art Museum, Yoko Ono&#8217;s&nbsp; <i>Painting to Hammer a Nail<\/i> invites the audience to pick up a nail and pound it into a wood panel painted white.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the audience decided to up the ante. (Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/target-practice-yoko-ohno---re.html\">here<\/a>.) Instead of continuing to pound nails as per the artist&#8217;s request, they turned her piece into a community bulletin board.<\/p>\n<p>Two photos from yesterday, from SAM&#8217;s Nicole Griffin.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoonoevole1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/yokoonoevole1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"401\" height=\"262\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoonoevolve2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/yokoonoevolve2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Credit goes to SAM for letting viewers be their own version of participants. As <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-classical-beat\/\">Anne Midgette<\/a>, the Washington Post&#8217;s excellent music critic, noted in the comments thread to the story linked above:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>In 1998 or 1999, I reviewed the major survey of performance art at LA MoCA for the Wall Street Journal (I don&#8217;t have the catalogue with me in DC). Yoko Ono&#8217;s &#8220;Painting to Hammer a Nail&#8221; was on display there too &#8211; with one key difference. There was a small sign next to the piece saying &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t Touch.&#8221; I&#8217;m glad to see that the piece has now been re-activated (and\/or re-hammered).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949-78 at the Seattle Art Museum, Yoko Ono&#8217;s&nbsp; Painting to Hammer a Nail invites the audience to pick up a nail and pound it into a wood panel painted white. Two weeks ago, the audience decided to up the ante. (Story here.) Instead of continuing to pound nails as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}