Curator, Christophe Cherix: Hello, I’m Christophe Cherix, the Robert Lehman Chief Curator of Drawings & Prints and one of the curators of this exhibition. Apple was first displayed in a London gallery in 1966. It was here that Ono met John Lennon for the first time, when he came in the day before the opening.
Yoko Ono: And then he saw the apple. You know, he didn't say anything. He just grabbed it and had a bite in it. Apple was a fresh apple on an installation like this. And he just grabbed it and bit it and looked at me like, you know, "There!" you know? I was so furious, I didn't know what to say. And it all showed in my face: How dare this person, you know, mess around with my work? So he just said, "I'm sorry", and just put it on the stand again.
