Yoko Ono Hospitalized But On Way to Recovery

According to USA Today, Yoko Ono was hospitalized in New York City due to flu-like symptoms. Her representative has said that she is currently on her way to recovery and should be released from the hospital very shortly. Representatives have also disputed the claims that Ono's hospitalization was due to a stroke.

Ono was hospitalized around 9 p.m. on Friday, February 26th. Elliot Mintz expects that she will be released from the hospital Saturday, the 27th, claiming that the hospitalization was "nothing."

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During the first 11 years of her extensive career, Ono moved among New York, Tokyo, and London, serving a pioneering role in the international development of Conceptual art, experimental film, and performance art. Her earliest works were often based on instructions that Ono communicated to viewers in verbal or written form. Painting to Be Stepped On (1960/1961), for example, invited viewers to tread upon a piece of canvas placed directly on the floor. Though easily overlooked, the work radically questioned the division between art and the everyday by asking viewers to participate in its completion. At times poetic, humorous, sinister, and idealistic, Ono's early text-based works anticipated the objects that she presented throughout the decade, including Grapefruit (1964), her influential book of instructions; Apple (1966), a solitary piece of fruit placed on a Plexiglas pedestal; and Half-A-Room (1967), an installation of bisected domestic objects.