Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton Johns collection, a Roman colossus remade

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 12:01 a.m.

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A vast survey covering seven decades of art by Yoko Ono has just opened at Tate Modern, and we take a tour of the show with Juliet Bingham, its curator. The collection from Elton John\\u2019s home in Atlanta in the US is up for auction at Christie\\u2019s and ahead of its big Opening Night auction next week, The Art Newspaper\\u2019s associate digital editor Alexander Morrison spoke to Tash Perrin, Christie\\u2019s deputy chairman in the Americas, about the works and John\\u2019s particular taste in art and objects. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is a reconstructed and reimagined statue of the fourth-century Roman emperor, Constantine the Great. The colossus has been remade from the 10 known fragments of the original sculpture by the Madrid-based Factum Foundation, and was installed last week in a garden in Rome\\u2019s Capitoline Museums. Adam Lowe, the founder of the Factum Foundation, tells me more.


Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Tate Modern, until 1 September; K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, D\\xfcsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, 28 September-16 March 2025


The Collection of Sir Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road auctions begin at Christie\\u2019s New York on 21 February; online sales are now open.


The Colossus of Constantine, Capitoline Museums, Rome, until at least the end of 2025.


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