Seen & Heard: Yoko Ono on Chambers?

June 26, 2025 Arts & Culture, Events, History, Kids, Parks

YOKO ONO AT 112 CHAMBERS?
A representative of Castelli Gallery got in touch recently to ask if I knew the owners of 112 Chambers. She said that gallery director Barbara Castelli would love to get access to the space, which she believes was once rented or owned by Yoko Ono, who then lent it to the artists Robert Morris and Arakawa to live and work. Anyone have any info on that, or a way to see the space? Let me know and I will connect. UPDATE: I forgot about this post, when James Bogardus sent a video recollection of Yoko’s days there.

PRINTING OPEN HOUSE AT BOWNE & CO.
South Street Seaport Museum will host a free Fresh Prints open house on Thursday, July 3, 6p at Bowne & Co. at 211 Water. The monthly open house features a breadth of printing equipment that you will be invited to use. You’ll get to see how the designers at Bowne lock up limited edition designs that showcase some of the more eccentric parts from the Seaport Museum’s printing and graphic arts collection.

FIELD DAY AT ROCKEFELLER PARK
Battery Park City will host a field day tomorrow, Friday, June 27, from 10a to 1p as a last day of school celebration. Families are invited to join for a World Wide Playdate with Divinity Roxx and Friends along with other performers. Take part in field games, face-painting, water play, activities with local organizations, and the annual tug-of-war. More info here.

FAVE OOO MESSAGE FOR SUMMER
I got an out-of-office message recently when I sent a note out to my advertisers, and I thought… if only. It’s ideal world material: “I am currently on vacation and not accepting any emails about anything. I’m not planning on reading any old emails when I get back, either, because that feels antithetical to the vacation experience. Try me again after June 30.”

 
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  2. James Bogardus
    June 26, 2025 • 3:00 pm

    Yoko Ono. Chambers Street Loft Series. 1961 | MoMA https://share.google/zkm9flRogg9TziKID

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  3. The Walrus
    June 26, 2025 • 8:17 pm

    https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/15/369

    CHAMBERS STREET LOFT SERIES
    December 1960
    –
    June 1961
    In December 1960, Yoko Ono rented a loft on the top floor
    of a building located at 112 Chambers Street, in downtown
    Manhattan. She intended to use the space as a studio but
    also envisioned it as a place to present new music and ideas,
    a place unlike any other in the contemporary performance
    scene dominated by Midtown concert halls. Ono borrowed
    a baby grand piano from a friend and created makeshift
    furniture with discarded crates, transforming the low-ceilinged,
    gray-paneled loft into a vibrant environment. Over the
    course of six months, Ono and composer La Monte Young
    presented numerous events by artists, musicians, dancers,
    and composers, the programs for which are exhibited here.
    Several works combined music, visual art, and performance,
    blurring the distinctions between mediums. On any given
    evening there were as many as two hundred attendees,
    including art-world figures such as John Cage, Marcel
    Duchamp, Peggy Guggenheim, Isamu Noguchi, George
    Maciunas, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg.

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