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yoko ono home in New York

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

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