Ono: Lennon's art showed playful side

To Yoko Ono, John Lennon's art reveals a little-known side of the legendary Beatles musician. ''He's not really known for his artwork, but it shows the innocent side of him from his childhood,'' Lennon's wife, Ono, said from Manhattan. ''That's what he tried first -- he went to art school. He was very proud of that.'' In My Life: The Artwork of John Lennon, an exhibit presented by Ono and The Las Olas Company, will be on display in Fort Lauderdale Friday through Feb. 7 in a Las Olas Boulevard storefront. In the late 1950s, before he helped create The Beatles, Lennon attended the Liverpool Art Institute. He chronicled his family and his messages of peace through art his entire life, until his murder at age 40 in 1980. [read more]