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flaming lips and yoko ono plastic ono band: atlas eets christmas
Consequence of Sound (December 6th 2011): "The Flaming Lips have added to their roster of bedfellows. Following collaborations with Prefuse 73, Neon Indian, and Lightning Bolt, the Lips have teamed up with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band for a holiday-themed number entitled “Atlas Eets Christmas”. The track was debuted earlier this morning on the band’s recently launched website, atlaseetschristmas.com, which is streaming the band’s holiday rarities on an infinite loop."
The Flaming Lips and YO/POB will also perform live in two shows, the first on New Years Eve and the second on New Years Day in California. Tulsa World: "Two posts on Coyne's Twitter feed read: "The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band will each do a performance!! At midnight Yoko Ono will sing War Is Over... Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with the Flaming Lips!!" Tickets
Tulsa World also reports that there's new music in the works from the collaboration: "Recently, Coyne also announced via Twitter that the band is working on a collaboration with the Plastic Ono Band, "The Fear Litany."
From a review by NewsOK.com (January 1st 2012): "(--) calling up Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band to join in with The Flaming Lips and crowd on John Lennon tracks "Give Peace A Chance" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." This short interlude and subsequent New Year's countdown was sweet and sincere, far and away the most touching moment of the evening. Moments before, Coyne — along with The Flaming Lips' manager and CEO of ACM@UCO — presented Ono with a special proclamation deeming January 31, 2011 as Yokoklahoma Day from Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett, Coyne said."
a new art exhibition by yoko ono: light
From the gallery press release: "In the exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Light (original title in Japanese 灯 あかり）, Ono will present a variety of works to bring light to the Japanese people in the wake of the tragic earthquake. Among the works in the exhibitions are: To the Light, a large maze which people can walk through to find a light in the center; Invisible People, transparent human-shaped figures standing in dim lights in the darkness ; works from Remnants, arranged and displayed broken furniture from a house that was destroyed in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on one of the works from Remnants, Ono created an edition work titled Air Clock and will release it to the public for the first time in this exhibition. Ono will also inscribe messages of her hopes and thoughts in the gallery space with Japanese calligraphy."
"activists to take over john and yoko's suite"
The Montreal Gazette (October 1st 2011): "On Thursday morning, four Montreal women will climb into the famous bed in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel from which John Lennon and Yoko Ono asked the world to "give peace a chance." The women, from the nonprofit Breast Cancer Action Montreal, will be demanding the federal government "give cancer prevention a chance" through clear labelling that alerts consumers to cancercausing ingredients in all products sold in Canada."
imagine peace billboard in houston texas
Culture Map Houston (September 29th 2011): "Ono's work, only one part of her larger, decades-spanning peace promotion movement, was unveiled in early September, on a 14-by-48 foot billboard on I-45 North, near I-10. It's a stark, clean white with simple black text. (...) At a time when the U.S. is embroiled in seemingly never-ending conflicts abroad, and rebellions and revolutions are rife on every continent, Ono's public art piece serves as a poignant antithesis of the present — and the rest of the show's artists attempt to offer a glimmer of hope for what's to come."
imagine peace tower to be lit for john lennon's birthday
The Examiner (September 24th 2011): "As she has done each year on John Lennon's birthday Oct. 9, Yoko Ono will again be present in Iceland this year for a lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower. The lighting ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. Iceland time. Yoko's Imagine Peace Tower website will stream the ceremony. Ono is requesting everyone send in their wishes. She will also participate on Twitter and Facebook. (...) Ono and the Plastic Ono Band will perform Oct. 13 as one of the featured performers at the Iceland Airwaves Festival, which takes place Oct. 12-16 in Reykjavik."
"sean lennon - when i grow up..."
The Telegraph: "He first began his musical career at the tender age of five, where he appeared on one of his mother's albums."
"yokohama's magic touch"
The Irish Times (September 24th 2011): "Yoko Ono's installation, cheekily, consists of a glass labyrinth with a telephone at its centre. The lure is that, if you make your way to the centre, the artist, currently at home in New York, might ring. No one was waiting too long for that call. Ono is also showing an extensive installation at the Hiroshima City Museum of Art, The Road of Hope , a response to the city's past catastrophe, which also incorporates references to Japan's recent tsunami. Her installation, besides incorporating doors to a better future, includes domestic debris recovered from buildings demolished by the earthquake and the tsunami. Unlike Ono, or even Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto couldn't be regarded as a populist artist, but there are permanent queues for his walk-through installation, featuring not only the beautiful black-and-white photographs for which he is best known but a series of intriguing, Zen-like stories that pose questions about the nature of perception and reality."
"stony brook students and yoko ono imagine peace"
THINK Magazine (September 19th 2011): "The exhibit tried to bridge the past with the present, presenting new pieces from Ms. Ono. One of the pieces is an interactive piece, where visitors are welcomed to stamp "Imagine Peace" across maps of the World, of the United States, and of New York. What differentiates this exhibit from most agitprop is the earnestness. The thing that makes '60's nostalgia is that so inexhaustible, especially with artists, is the sincerity in peace, and in a sort of a Dionysian nature. Hopefully, this exhibit will not be viewed as a collection of antiquities, rather a vibrant introspection of what can be achieved. As Yoko Ono said about her work, "all my work is in the form of wishing". It only takes one."
"exploring a career before, and beyond, 'john and yoko'"
The New York Times (September 16th 2011):
"In 1968, Kevin Concannon was a 12-year-old Beatles fan when an avant-garde artist named Yoko Ono started appearing in press stories linking her with John Lennon. "It was my first exposure ever to a real live artist, and especially a real live avant-garde conceptual artist," recalled Dr. Concannon, who has a doctorate in art history from Virginia Commonwealth University and is now the director of the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech."
"Before meeting Mr. Lennon, Dr. Concannon said, Ms. Ono "had been making work for the advertising medium that was about imagining things in your mind, as opposed to concrete objects." In the show are several magazines, from 1965 and 1966, in which Ms. Ono took out advertisements that served as conceptual-art instructions. One reads, in part: "Swim in your sleep/go on swimming until you find an island"; the text is superimposed on a pale photo of the artist, seemingly asleep."
the road of hope - a special exhibition by yoko ono in hiroshima
The 8th Hiroshima Art Prize winner Yoko Ono exhibits her art at The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan from July 30th to October 16th 2011. Yoko Ono: in her dedication for the exhibition: "Trust in the power of human intellect."
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Photo by Garett Fisbeck
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