"A CUP" OF YOKO ONO

Why not. She is the latest artist collaborating with the Italian coffee company Illy. The set of espresso cups, timed to debut the “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971” that opens on May 17 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, are inspired by the Kintsugi – a Japanese method of fixing broken pottery by using powdered metals (aluminium, bronze, silver or gold) mixed with lacquer and water. She “incised” on them sentences that resembles certain harrowing events in her life, “adorned” also with the name of the event and the date.  Among others, we can find the bombing of Dresden during World War II (Feb. 13, 1945), the My Lai Massacre (March 16, 1968) and (of course) John Lennon´s death in New York (Dec. 8, 1980).