Tate Modern’s Reimagining of Yoko Ono’s Oeuvre

When I speak to Sean Lennon over the phone a few weeks before the opening of Tate Modern’s “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” he’s in his 91-year-old mother’s apartment in Manhattan, a few feet away from a piece of art that irrevocably changed the course of pop culture. Conceived as an interactive work, Painting To Hammer A Nail formed the centerpiece of Yoko Ono’s revelatory 1966 exhibition “Unfinished Paintings” at London’s now-shuttered Indica Gallery—catching the attention of a certain Beatle when he dropped by one frigid November evening to see whether the Japanese artist he’d heard so much about lived up to the hype.