Museum exhibit display of Yoko Ono's Gun Control Billboard showing John Lennon's blood-stained glasses before a misty New York skyline, with red and black text stating over 1,400,000 people have been killed by guns in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980.

Yoko Ono Gun Control Billboard — Museum Exhibit

9 October 2019

Yoko Ono's Gun Control Billboard, originally created in 2000 and updated through 2018, pairs a single statistic with John Lennon's blood-stained glasses against a hazy New York skyline. The number does the work — over 1,400,000 gun deaths in the U.S.A. since December 8, 1980 — and the glasses make it personal. A piece that functions as both memorial and argument, without ever needing to choose between the two.

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