CULTURE
SEAN LENNON is talking about his mother’s child-rearing philosophy. “She had a very sort of postmodern, posthippie, post-feminist way of thinking,” he says of Yoko Ono. “It was very liberal, and she always treated me like an individual. She never really told me not to do anything, except get a Mohawk or a tattoo. So there were very few boundaries. She believed that kids are individuals and shouldn’t be treated like a subservient class.”
At 84, Ono—singer, artist, activist, and guardian of the legacy of her late husband (and Sean’s father) John Lennon—is enjoying a remarkable latecareer reappraisal. The Ono oeuvre, once maligned as a conglomeration of unbearable neo-Dadaist pranks and unlistenable music, is now considered haute. Her conceptual-art projects—films, installations, happenings, and performance pieces, such as her 1964…
