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Yoko digs it!

Yoko Ono ( Getty Images)

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (Getty Images)

Yoko Ono’s latest attempt at art is a big pile of . . . dirt. Three piles, actually.

The installation was dumped in a London gallery as part of a retrospective on her 40-year career as an “artist.”

But British art critics are having a hard time shoveling what she’s left on the floor, and have even ripped the name of her exhibit, “To the Light,” which opened yesterday at the city’s famed Serpentine Gallery.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper suggested the exhibition’s title has got to be a “mistake,” noting that “those who have suffered near-death experiences often complain of a bright light — and a voice telling them to go towards it.” And no one would want to go toward this.

Of Ono’s piles of dirt — explained as a commentary about world peace — the newspaper sniffed, “Were it not by Ono, we wouldn’t linger. War is bad, the message seems to be, so consider the sky or take up gardening.”

Her art is better, the newspaper sniped, “when she’s not trying to be meaningful.”

To create 1966’s “Ceiling Painting,” for which viewers had to climb a ladder just to see the tiny word “Yes,” Ono claimed divine inspiration.

“I think I was helped by the angels,” she told a reporter.

Other bizarre exhibits from the 79-year-old widow of John Lennon include her 1966 “masterpiece,” Apple (far left), which simply features a green apple on a Plexiglass box. When the apple rots, it is replaced with a new one.

Critics have also blasted some of her other pieces, like “A Family Album” — two bronze shoes paired with a mangled coat hanger and spattered with painted blood — as “obvious and trite.”