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Exhibition review: War is over! (If you want it), by Yoko Ono

The naive idealism of Yoko Ono’s radical conceptual art strikes a chord with visitors.

By Sally Blundell In Art

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28th November, 2013
‘Take a piece of sky,” says the wall text. “Know that we are all part of each other.” Dutifully, I come home with a snippet of sky, a jigsaw piece printed blue with a wisp of cloud taken from an upturned helmet hanging from the ceiling of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). “I’m not going to finish everything,” says Yoko Ono, a small exclamation mark of a woman addressing a press conference the day before the opening of her exhibition War is Over! (If you want it). “I would like you to join me and show our creative powers in these works. Some of these works ...

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