John Lennon wasn’t at the London Arts Gallery as police tore his art
exhibition “Bag One” down by the frames. But as the Beatles frontman
returned to pick up the 14 drawings he’d hung there, only the six not
deemed illegally obscene still adorned the now infamous walls. 
It was
Jan. 28, 1970, nearly 43 years to the day before his once-controversial
art is set to make another public appearance, this time along Park
Avenue.
“When it’s a Picasso or something, they don’t dare touch it, but they
said John Lennon is not a professional artist,” widow Yoko Ono said of
the motive for the art-confiscating fracas. It started in a gallery and
ended in a courtroom just as the Beatles were deciding they weren’t the
Beatles anymore. “You’d say his name and people would say ‘Oh, you mean
the pop star?’ Now people know how good he was as an artist.”
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