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Brigid Cohen

Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care

John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed on November 2, 1980. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images

Light a match and watch till it goes out. Go to the middle of Central Park Pond and drop all your jewelry. Scream against the sky.

When a young Yoko Ono formulated these actions in the 1950s and 1960s, they heralded a bracingly quirky vision for the arts as a therapeutic practice of everyday life — a vision that anticipated an ethos of self-care that's widely embraced today.

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