On This Spot Newsletter June 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Yoko Ono

World Renowned Conceptual Artist and Activist



Yoko Ono was part of the Fluxus group and believed in the collision of art and everyday life. She is a pioneering feminist artist whose radical works include "Destruction Performance” and “Cut Piece” concerning violence against women’s bodies. Ono and Lennon moved into their first New York City apartment together on Bank Street. The composer John Cage lived next door. She staged experimental art and music events in various unexpected downtown locations, including rooftops.

Spot Reads

Further reading on Spot artists

Yoko: A Biography by David Sheff

An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono. A harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining account of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.

What's Happening

Events and exhibitions related to Spot artists

Installation view of "The Human Situation" at Lévy Gorvy Dayan.

The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh

April 10 – June 21, 2025

Lévy Gorvy Dayan

19 East 64th Street, New York

The three figurative women artists featured in this exhibition revisit the groundbreaking 1973 show Women Choose Women. Active during that era, their work responded to the socio-political movements of the time, including the civil rights and women’s rights movements.

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