A Box of Smile
Yoko Ono, American (born Japan), born 1933
1971/1984 ReFlux Edition
Black plastic box inscribed in gold: "A BOX OF SMILE Y.O. '71"; mirror on bottom of interior
ReFlux Ed., New York, 1984 [Original 1971 Box; Mirror replaced 1984]
Overall: 2 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 2 3/16 in. (5.4 × 5.4 × 5.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
© Yoko Ono
GM.989.12.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
Embossed, in gold letters, on lid: "A BOX OF SMILE Y.O. '71"; inscribed, on bottom of box, lower right: ReFLUX
Course History
PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014
SART 76, Senior Seminar I, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015
PHIL 23, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Winter 2015
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
FILM 03, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2021
SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
FILM 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2022
ASCL 7.03,Asian-American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Winter 2023
Film Studies 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2023
Asian Society, Culture, & Language 7.03, Asian-American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Winter 2023
Art History 83.06, Art and Life, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
"Distributed" during the "This is Not Here,"[Yoko Ono Retrospective], Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, October 1971.
"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 16-August 7, 2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, September 9-December 3, 2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 25-May 20 2012, check list number 55.
A Space for Dialogue 29, Reflections on the Mirror, Katherine Harrison, Class of 2006, The Homma Family Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 2005-January 29, 2006.
New Humanisms, Art History 5, Winter 2020, Mary Coffey, Associate Professor of Art History, Chad Elias, Assistant Professor of Art History, Teaching Exhibition, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, January 18, 2020 – March 15, 2020.
Publication History
Alice Gomstyn, "What's Under the Hood? A peek at some of the rarest and most offbeat items housed in the College's Hood Museum of Art," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 96, Number 4, March-April 2004, pp. 30-31.
Barbara Moore, ReFlux Editions, 351 West 30 St., New York, Catalogue no. 3, Fall 1988, no. 16/17.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.142, Fig.1.
Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 62, ill., p. 105, checklist no. 55.
Provenance
The artist; distributed during "This is Not Here,"[Yoko Ono Retrospective], Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, October 1971; acquired by Bound & Unbound, New York, date unknown; sold to present collection, 1989.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 416,422, no. 346.1.
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