Yoko Ono

I've just been flipping through Yoko Ono's book Grapefruit.  I can't help but think that she would have been able to devote much more of her life to this sort of very interesting art had she not ended up with John Lennon and spent so much time hanging out with celebrities and joining in on the chorus on "Bungalow Bill."  Nothing against "Bungalow Bill," but I don't think it's half as interesting as, for example, her "Beat Piece" from 1963: "Listen to a heart beat."  Or a film like this, from 1965:

On the other hand, if she'd never married Lennon—or even stayed married to Toshi Ichiyanagi—I guess not so many people would have heard of her and been exposed to her own work, so maybe it was a reasonable move strategically from that standpoint...   Still, it would have been nice if a bigger crowd had shown up for this performance at MOMA last year: