Yoko Ono Show at The Everson Museum

Videofreex documentation from October 9, 1971 of crowd  celebrating the opening of the Yoko Ono retrospective exhibition "This Is Not Here" at th Everson Musemof Art in Syracuse, NY.

On this day, John Lennon's 31st birthday, a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Yoko Ono opened at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. The show looked back over 10 years of her career, and was billed as "A show of unfinished paintings and sculpture". It ran until 27 October 1971. This Is Not Here had been commissioned in the week before Lennon and Ono left England. With less than a month to prepare, Ono invited her husband to participate as 'guest artist', and also asked friends in the art and music world for contributions.Guests for the opening night included Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Starkey, Allen Klein, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Frank Zappa, Spike Milligan, Jack Nicholson, Dick Cavett, John Cage and Dennis Hopper.  (thebeatlesbible.com)