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Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’

December 25, 2019July 9, 2015 by Editorial Team

For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning – for peace, for feminism, for gun control and, most recently, against fracking. This tireless activism, she says, is at the heart of her work as an artist. Alex Needham meets her at home in New York

Categories Art, Green Tags ‘Bed-In’ with John Lennon in 1969, A dream you dream together is reality, Alex Needham, anti-fracking campaign, Art and design, Article, Culture, Features, Imagine Peace Tower, Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Interviews, John Lennon, Music, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Observer Ethical Awards 2015, Observer Magazine, Performance art, The Observer, Wish Trees project, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono anti-fracking campaign, Yoko Ono art, Yoko Ono environmentalist, yoko ono home in New York, Yoko Ono interview, Yoko Ono World peace, Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960-1971

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