numero ono
Newsweek (August 28th 2009): "On the album opener, "Waiting for the D Train," Yoko turns in a vocal performance that, for its uncanny marriage of power with nuance, puts most postpunk singers to shame."
In another review by Canadian Exclaim: "Ono is revisiting her earlier ideas they still sound exciting. With any luck, this new recording will entice newcomers into exploring her back catalogue more thoroughly and prompt a re-evaluation of her work."
letters to a young artist
The Stranger (August 27th 2009): "Art is always a material and an immaterial struggle, as we're reminded by the cast of Letters, a solid cross-section of artists with staying power over the last several decades of art—Gregory Amenoff, Jo Baer, John Baldessari, Xu Bing, Jimmie Durham, Joseph Grigely, Guerrilla Girls, Cai, Joan Jonas, Alex Katz, John McCracken, Kerry James Marshall, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, Yoko Ono, Howardena Pindell, William Pope.L, Yvonne Rainer, Stephen Shore, Jessica Stockholder, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Lawrence Weiner. Their words are a reminder that artists have something to say that we need and want to hear."
a "yoko ono excavation survey" in seattle
The Stranger (August 24th 2009): Yoko Ono's Painting to Hammer a Nail has provoked another kind of reaction from audience.
lennon tapes reveal the beatles bickering
Houston Chronicle (August 20th 2009): John Lennon "sat down with Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner shortly after the Fab Four parted ways and revealed a few home truths about the real reasons behind the split - something the four former Beatles have rarely spoken about. Wenner released the tapes for celebrated rock journalist Mikal Gilmore's study on what tore the band apart, which appears in the upcoming issue of the publication. The 1970 tapes have also been released to TV news show Entertainment Tonight, which aired Lennon's comments on Wednesday. Lennon can be heard telling Wenner, "We sold out... and I felt sick."
dispute over rare john lennon footage back in court
Boston Herald (August 17th 2009): "Shot in London in 1970 on the verge of the Beatles’ breakup - and never seen by Lennon’s fans - the hours and hours of footage are estimated to be worth up to $150 million. They were only recently declared the property of Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono."
"The damages dispute is between World Wide Video and Ono’s former co-defendant Anthony Pagola, a Florida man the company alleged in its lawsuit sold Ono the footage for $300,000 in 2002 without its permission."
yoko ono / plastic ono band to jools holland show
According to Sean Lennon's messageboard, Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band will be promoted in Tokyo, Japan, soon and it will also be featured on Jools Hollands Show (BBC).
yoko ono interviewed in the summer issue of artforum
"Well, when I first began as an artist, I would compose haikus, expressing things in lines of seven-five-seven syllables. And I really loved doing that. But then there came a point where I wanted to communicate something stronger than the haiku. Well, actually, you can't communicate "stronger" than the haiku can, but you can elaborate an idea so that people better understand it. So you can see, in my work, a moment where it was getting more desperate for me to communicate-in the sense that I was trying to communicate in a way that was more understandable. Some artists will try over time to communicate in more and more complex forms, you see. But in my case, I started very complex and then wanted to communicate in a simpler way, so that we would really reach each other."
yoko qanda day – fridays on twitter
From Yoko Ono's official website: "Friday QandA day: Ask me an interesting question, tag it #yokoQandA and I’ll answer 10-15 every week on IMAGINEPEACE.com love, yoko"
get to know john lennon the artist as yoko ono did
Delmarva Now (August 2009): "The Come Together exhibit is a show that travels to 12 states across the country with more than 100 pieces of art by Lennon. The collection encompasses artwork created from 1968-1980 and includes original drawings, rare works signed by Lennon and the Real Love series of children's drawings."
yoko ono: DREAM
To celebrate Yoko Ono receiving The 2009 Venice Biennale Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion, Luigi Bonotto's ArchivioBonotto has installed over 1000 billboards in Italy - in Milan, Rome, Venice, Florence, Bologna, Mestre, Padova & Verona.
Please add your photos of Yoko Ono's DREAM billboards to this Flickr group
international fluxhibition #3 thinking inside of the box
Fluxmuseum presents: Fluxus boxes, cases, kits and containers from the permanent collection, artists from 17 countries, including Yoko Ono's We're All Water (2005) container with instruction pieces in Japanese and Voice Piece for Soprano (1961).
Also Ono friend Jorge Artajo's pieces are included in this group exhibition: Discarded Brush for George Maciunas and Fluxus Cut-in for Cecil Touchon.
white feather: the spirit of lennon in liverpool until december 2009
Julian Lennon about this special exhibition: "Growing up as John Lennon’s son has been a rocky path. He was a great talent, a remarkable man who stood for love and peace in the world, but to me he was the father I loved and longed for in his many absences. Mum was his first love, she was the one who held us together through it all. I started collecting these personal pieces because I felt they belonged back in our family. This collection represents something of great importance to me as it is part of our history.”
The Story of White Feather
“One thing Dad said to me should he pass away, if there was any way of letting me know he was going to be ok the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather always represented peace to me.”
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