A new John Lennon exhibit at the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame Annex will be a welcome event for most of the music world.  John Lennon was more than just a Beattle; he was an artist, a peace activist and the husband of a Yoko Ono.  However, an exhibit that features a paper bag containing the blood-stained clothes from his murder is morbid and tasteless.  Yes, Yoko Ono has agreed to showcase the man's bloody clothes.  The exhibit also features Lennon's famous wire-rimmed glasses and a piano, but blood-stained clothes?  Come on!  He was a man, not the Second Coming.  I know the western world often walks the line between happy consumer and obsessive/addictive freak, but this takes the crazy cake.

I don't know who to blame.  Yoko Ono?  An exploitive art community?  A society ripped of its own self-importance and then seduced into thinking a dead man's bloody clothes is far more interesting?  The man is dead and his clothes don't possess the remedy for global chaos.

What are your thoughts?