Yoko Ono's work of atonement

The Detroit News ^ | 11/15/03 | Joy Colby

[ItsJeff]

When darkness falls on Wednesday, artist Yoko Ono will appear on the Woodward Avenue lawn of the Detroit Institute of Arts to talk about her "Freight Train" exhibit.

It will be the artist/musician's first look at the Detroit installation of the work she created in 1999 as her response to the 1987 tragedy of Mexican migrant workers smuggled across the Texas border and locked in a boxcar to die.

[ItsJeff]

[Paul Atreides]

artist Yoko Ono

Talk about a contradiction in terms.

[ChadGore]

[Paul Atreides]

It will be the artist/musician's first look at the Detroit installation of the work she created in 1999 as her response to the 1987 tragedy of Mexican migrant workers smuggled across the Texas border and locked in a boxcar to die.

I would ask where her work is, as a response to the deaths on 9-11, if not for the fact that what she would come up with would diminish their deaths.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

When the valley girls came up with the term "bag yer face", i'm sure they were thinking of Yoko Ono.

[FreedomCalls]

It will be the artist/musician's first look at the Detroit installation of the work she created in 1999 as her response to the 1987 tragedy of Mexican migrant workers smuggled across the Texas border and locked in a boxcar to die.

The millions of dollars she has that she inherited from John Lennon could be used to provide food, clothing, medicine, or job opportunities to impoverished Mexicans so they would not have to flee their homeland to die trying to come to the United States -- instead we get this self-aggrandizing bullsh*t that does NOTHING to help people impoverished by their surroundings, nothing other than making Yoko feel good. Typical liberal.

[Skwidd]

Why can't she 'Let it Be'?

[Chi-townChief]

Ono will be welcomed to Detroit, not as the celebrity widow of slain Beatle John Lennon, but as an internationally respected artist whose conceptual works are in demand across Europe, Asia and South America as well as in the United States.

Hey, I thought we didn't allow articles from The Onion anymore!

[LauraJean]

I thought she was going to atone for the fact she broke up the Beatles.

[BeerSwillr]

That name has always sounded like a pronographic Japanese phrase to me...yoko ono

[GSWarrior]

Better she draw than sing.

[ItsJeff]

Amen!!!

[ItsJeff]

"Detroit seems like the west to me. I always wanted to have my work represented in the west."

What the...???

[hoot2]

"not as the celebrity widow of slain Beatle John Lennon, but as an internationally respected artist "

"artist Yoko Ono Talk about a contradiction in terms. "

except for the accident of the timing of her birth...
she.....would have painted the sistine chapel...

[Skwidd]

I thought she was going to atone for the fact she broke up the Beatles.

That'll never happen. Don't you watch the 'Powerpuff Girls'?

And what is up with the 'squid sauce' thing? =)

[Paul Atreides]

More like painted over the Sistine Chapel.

[nmh]

#3. I like that one. These idiots just don't get it. Worse yet they see themselves as heads and shoulders above the rest of us even though their stupidity is blatent.

[xp38]

She's an amino (artist/musician in name only)

[Free_at_last_-2001]

"avant-garde is French for 'bullshit'." - John Lennon

[hoot2]

art???is that a spaghetti western boxcar?

kalli...boxcar art...