Yoko Ono designs coffee cup line inspired by tragedies

I admire Yoko Ono - her art as one of the early Post Modern Fluxus group was clever and innovative. I really liked some of her ideas and pieces in the Lennon Museum in Saitama as well. She's much maligned by bitter Beatles fans, but unfairly in my opinion. John Lennon was a smart, innovative man himself - he knew exactly what he was doing.

I have a feeling these might not be big sellers, as I doubt people want to be jolted too much during their morning brew - although I'd say that is exactly the point.

I've never heard of kintsugi. I don't think I've ever seen cracked pottery repaired with gold. I wonder whether it's a regional thing or a dying art.

Tamarama-- I agree completely. I was going to post something similar, but I'm glad you already did.

I too agree with you Tamarama but do not think I would drink from these cups..I would display them though

'I've never heard of kintsugi. I don't think I've ever seen cracked pottery repaired with gold. I wonder whether it's a regional thing or a dying art."

Kintsugi takes special skill and isn't practiced as much today as in the past when really old pottery was repaired. The irony is that many formally cracked, broken tea bowls are sought after by collectors and worth huge amounts of money.

I can't say I think much of Yoko Ono, but these cups are interesting. Anyway, if being a good artist was dependent on being a good person, we wouldn't have many artists left.

Tama - whole heartedly agree.

I'm with Cammanteer. I haven't really seen anything Ono has done that is groundbreaking or particularly aesthetically pleasing.

I'm with Cammanteer. I haven't really seen anything Ono has done that is groundbreaking or particularly aesthetically pleasing.

I don't know... I kinda enjoyed "Bottoms," the short movie she made back in 1966 showing people's bare buttocks jiggling while they walked on a treadmill.

Dear Yoko, go away. Thank you. Your 15 minutes have been over for three decades.

The artist and widow of John Lennon has designed a collection of cups and saucers featuring the dates and places of six tragic events .........................and the day Lennon was shot and killed in 1980.

She is vastly overrated and she is indirectly responsible for John's death; he wanted to stay in Japan but she selfishly insisted that they go to New York, the result of that was his murder.

I love Yoko. I would buy her product if 98% of profit goes to charity. Love you, Yoko.

She is vastly overrated and she is indirectly responsible for John's death; he wanted to stay in Japan but she selfishly insisted that they go to New York, the result of that was his murder."

WTF is offensive/vulgar about that, it happens to be true. You are just another power drunk moderator who is quite happy to allow all sorts of anti-Japan posts from the usual Korea / China sympathisers but anything factual (and it is, George Harrison told me) gets deleted. Pathetic.

Kyushubill i totally agree, she's been milking it way to long.

kyushubill

Hey at least this is passive and visual "art" so you don't have to be assailed by anything coming out of her mouth. But you're spot on about her 15 mintutes lasting several decades too many...

Yoko Ono still is able to irritate in fits the sort of people I wouldn't want to be seated next to anywhere, at anytime. That's a work of conceptual art all on its own, which I appreciate and admire, apart from its usefulness.

These are quite interesting pieces of work.

Can think of a few... no one likes this woman;

Breaking up the beatles

Not being able to sing

Chipped tooth on silver spoon in mouth growing up

Whenever I hear about Yoko I think about Cynthia and Julian, John's first wife and child.

Yoko lives with her and John's son, Sean, in the sumptuous Dakota building in New York, where Lennon was shot in 1980, and Sean Lennon, not Julian, will inherit the bulk of the Beatle's reputed £220 million fortune.

However, per the original divorce settlement, Julian was to only receive £2,400 a year in maintenance and to inherit a £50,000 trust fund when he was 25. And what is really sad, was the lack of any personal mementoes Julian was allowed to have, "Seeing nothing offered to me at all, having to go out and buy back Dad's stuff with his money".

Yoko is a hypocrite with when she talks about peace and love out loud to the world but could never show compassion to John's own flesh and blood, Julian Lennon.

Yes i admire Yoko Ono's art its here way to keep herself happy after the tragic lost of here loving husband John Lennon, God Bless her

Yoko was auctioning off items John wrote to Julian at an auction and to get them back, Julian had to buy them with the money he was finally rewarded when he took Yoko to court. How could you admire Yoko? She is rude, manipulative, and greedy.

Cynthia, always elegant, always dignified, always stylish, always classy. I have seen Cynthia Lennon interviewed several times now. She never bad-mouths John, never complains about being abandoned, never moans about the difficult times she and Julian must have gone through afterwards. Yoko is on record of being against John keeping in touch with his first family.

Listen to the tale of John's two wives. Yoko isn't some peace loving woman. She purposely went after this married, wealthy, famous man when his wife and her husband were away. She lives an opulent lifestyle off of John's wealth. Yoko Ono is known for buying $75,000 jewelry items at the same jewelry shop as Kim Kardashian.

And listen to Julian's tale. I love John as an artist, but he and Yoko were terrible people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSFk1q-HYIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F815coz2A3s#t=359

This "art" seems like something a high school student would make.