Yoko Ono Challenges Museum Touch Taboos 🎨

Of all the senses, touch is the biggest taboo in a museum. But what if allowing touch is the only way to truly experience the work?

In our latest episode of Art and the Senses, we follow two stories. The first shows how Yoko Ono challenged the rules of art in her "Painting to Be Stepped On" (1960), a piece of canvas laid on the floor, asking viewers to touch it. The second takes us on a “touch tour,” a long-running Access program at MoMA in which educators lead visitors who are blind or have low vision through the galleries to experience works through touch, a sense that shapes perception, memory, and emotional connection.

Hear from Ono, John Lennon, curators, conservators, artists, and museum educators as they explore one of the most powerful and charged senses. As Connor Monahan, Ono’s studio director says, “Touch is something that creates connection, and connection creates communication, and communication is what people need to create peace.”

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