yoko ono 75 years young on february 18
Your birthday greetings to Yoko.

Yoko Ono's Birthday Thoughts 2008 and party photos

yoko's birthday party
NME: "The Strokes, Rufus Wainwright and David Byrne were amongst the guests helping Yoko Ono celebrate her 75th birthday last night (February 18). Ono and John Lennon’s son, Sean Lennon, organised the party for 150 people at Joe’s Pub in New York City. The artist and musician performed a number of her solo songs, including 'Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)', backed by some of The B-52s and her son. Rufus Wainwright then performed a song for Ono, before her birthday cake was brought out, based on her piece of art 'Play It By Trust'."

wish trees
Yoko Ono's Wish Tree will be available for your wishes at Noise Pop (California, February 26th - March 2nd 2008), Mobile Art (Hongkong, February 27th - April 5th 2008), and Abingdon Arts Festival 2008 (Britain, March 1st - 15th 2008)

Please note that all the wishes will be eventually collected from the Wish Trees and sent to the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, Reykjavik, Iceland.

sean lennon to participate in film rosencrantz & guildenstern are undead
Paste Magazine (February 21st 2008): "According to director and writer Jordan Galland, the film is "a vampire comedy involving Shakespeare and the Holy Grail".

lennon murphy
Read Yoko Ono's full statement about the matter.

yoko ono at 75 admits it: she's a witch
West Australian Newspapers Limited (February 18th 2008): "Petite, lively and bursting with energy, Ono has not lost her provocative nature."

yoko ono: imagine peace
Jambase's interview with Yoko Ono: "I'm getting more and more political now. Well, that's not quite correct, because I've always been political in a way, but right now that is where my emphasis is because it's an age where you really need to try and change the world."

distinguished body of work award to yoko ono
College Art Association has awarded Yoko Ono the Distinguished Body of Work Award 2008: "Confounding simple categorization, Yoko Ono’s work spans diverse genres and media, including conceptual art, poetry, music, and performance, and affirms the role of the imagination, encouraging viewers to use her suggestive poetry as a point of departure to envision their own versions of reality. Ultimately her body of work conveys a spirit of hopefulness and belief in the transformative power of thought for both individuals and society at large. In addition to this award, Ono will also be interviewed during the Annual Artists’ Interviews at the 2008 CAA Annual Conference."

NASA takes the beatles 'across the universe' literally
Space.com: "NASA will beam The Beatles' song, "Across the Universe," into deep space Monday in an unprecedented long distance dedication by the U.S. agency. NASA's Deep Space Network will transmit the song at 7:00 p.m. EST (0000 Feb. 5 GMT) on Feb. 4 in honor of several cosmic-themed anniversaries.

Yoko Ono: "I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."

yoko and the window wall
Press release: "On Jan. 13 – Feb. 10, 2008 the Peter Paul Luce Gallery will host the exhibition of recent works by Professor Anthony Plaut titled YOKO and the WINDOW WALL. The exhibition includes oil paintings, sculpture, drawings and an homage to Yoko Ono."

Anthony Plaut: “Since the late seventies I have been aware of the art work of Yoko Ono and a few years ago I saw her retrospective exhibition in Minneapolis,” said Plaut, “I was very inspired by her conceptual ingenuity and gentle aesthetic.”

yoko ono at the puffin room
Photos by Mikihiko Hori from the group show "Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9".

international development charity VSO's campaign features john&yoko
Mad.co.uk (January 2008): "The push, created by Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw, will include press ads in national newspapers, Tube panels, outdoor activity and direct mail. VSO said that the campaign is centred upon individuals who have helped change the world. The creative work includes pictures of Lennon and Ono in bed and the Berlin wall being dismantled. The campaign's tagline is 'There are many ways to change the world. Find yours.'"

lennon sontag beuys
Saint Louis Today (January 2008): "He has carefully chosen three major cultural figures of the late 20th century, John Lennon, Susan Sontag and Joseph Beuys, at moments when they are expressing essential ideas about their aesthetic philosophies."

RESPECtacles
Liverpool City Council (January 18th 2008): "A breathtaking work of art highlighting the true horrors of the Holocaust will be unveiled on Monday at Liverpool Town Hall. The impressive RESPECtacles display uses the 100,000 pairs of glasses donated by the public to create a striking, atmospheric artwork. Vistors will be stunned by the sheer scale of the impressive piece, situated in the main ballroom of Liverpool Town Hall. Celebrities who have handed over spectacles for RESPECtacles, including Daniel Radcliffe, Tony Blair, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Steven Fry, Jerry Springer, Paul O'Grady, Ronnie Corbett, Joanna Lumley and Julie Walters."

yoko ono performance at bluecoat art center
The Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool: April 4th 2008

a minute with yoko ono
A short interview by Orato: "What was your greatest disappointment? Yoko Ono: Being a perfectionist, life was a series of disappointments. Being human, life was a series of joy."

yoko ono - women for women now (.pdf)
With thanks to Matt, here's the self-published programme by Yoko Ono from January 1974 for her "Women for Women" concert. It includes her essay ("Feeling the Space"), lyrics and drawings. "To my sisters, with love."

yoko ono live on blogtalkradio
Yoko talks for instance about her recent chart success.

ONO "no no no" number 1 in billboard hot dance club play chart
Issue date: 2008/1/12

visionaire 53 sound
PSFK (January 2nd 2008): "Called ‘Visionaire 53 Sound’ the issue, which sells on the Web and in stores for $250, includes five picture-disc 12-inch records with a portable record player shaped like a Clubman, trademarked the “Mini Clubman Vinyl Killer.” The limited edition collectible box sets (around 4,000 made and wrapped in a black plastic orb), include more than 100 original sound pieces of unreleased music and spoken word from a roster of artists including David Byrne, Alexander McQueen, U2, Courtney Love, Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon, Andrew WK and Danger Mouse."

yoko ono at consumer electronics show (CES)
Top Tech News (January 2nd 2008): "Yoko Ono, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, and other celebrities will be on hand at this year's CES, which runs January 7 to January 10 in Las Vegas. They'll join more than 2,700 exhibitors that hope to win a share of the $148 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry." Yoko Ono introduced the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.

a new book title
Yoko Ono (Modern Artists Series)
by Adrian George
Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher Tate Publishing (September 2008)
ISBN-10: 1854377345
ISBN-13: 978-1854377340

More books in our bibliography section

Yoko Ono at the Puffin Room © Mikihiko Hori