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The arboretum is located in the center of the museum with a fully flourishing garden all year. There are Venetian statues and a fountain decorating the space. The ceiling is all glass above the arboretum.

"Double Fantasy" was seen as John Lennon's triumphant return to the world of music after his hiatus. At least, it was after his death. That is, the album originally received poor reviews, but after Lennon's death later that year, it experienced a…

This Tweet, posted on December 8, 2015, is an example of using a historical event to engage in a modern political discussion with contemporary tools. The Tweet was posted on the anniversary of John Lennon's murder, and Ono Lennon utilizes that event…

"Getting Better" is a song from The Beatles' eighth studio album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The song, while not culturally significant as other tracks on the album, is relevant for the purposes of my final project. In this song,…

"Woman," which was written for John Lennon's album "Double Fantasy" is truly the antithesis of his previous song "Getting Better." In this song, Lennon sings about his second wife, Yoko Ono Lennon, and all the wonderful things she has done for him. …

This infographic provides information that would be suitable for data plotting, and puts John Lennon’s story into a larger context of domestic violence across the world. When put side by side with these statistics, we can see just how horrible…

This popular article details the an account of the who, what, when, where and why of John Lennon's murder on December 8, 1980. While it might have been possible the "Imagine" Mosaic would have been created in the event John Lennon died of natural…

Photograph of Gardner reading a book in 1907 in England, taken in the house of Henry Yates Thompson.

In the public memory, John Lennon was a man of peace. Becoming a peace activist was something he did relatively later in his life, but when he did embrace the ideology of pacifism, he was wholly committed to it. Because of his raving success as a…

According to publisher Penny Layne, "This video was taken at 10:50pm on December 8th, 2011 at the John Lennon Memorial in Strawberry Fields in Central Park, NYC. The video begins at moment of silence, taken at 10:50pm every year at the memorial, the…