yoko's chair
The State Journal-Register (January 27th 2009): "Sherry Frachey, a teacher at Iles, bought a $10 director’s chair at Big Lots and put it in her classroom. “...It just hit me,” says Sherry. “That’s going to be Yoko’s Chair. It’s for students who need to chill. They sit in Yoko’s Chair and hold Tucker (a stuffed dog). “Sometimes if they are having trouble concentrating in class, they will ask to sit in Yoko’s chair, and it really helps them focus.”
"Yoko’s Chair is in the classroom every day. To the Iles students, Yoko Ono and what she stands for have a quite different aura than they do for us Baby Boomers. Shorn of all of its Beatle baggage, the message remains simply this: “Peace.”
the beatles rooftop concert: it was 40 years ago today
The Telegraph (January 2009): "The rooftop 'concert' was the first live gig since the band stopped touring in 1965 (tired of constantly screaming girls and frustrated by not being able to reproduce the more complex arrangements of their studio albums) and was to be their last."
yoko ono in conversation with alexandra munroe: passages for light
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: April 2nd 2009
sarah cahill plays music for peace by nine composers
The Berkeley Daily Planet (January 21st 2009): "Pianist Sarah Cahill will perform “A Sweeter Music,” music for peace from nine composers, including Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Frederic Rzewski, Bay Area band The Residents—and Berkeley’s 17-year-old composer, Preben Antonsen, with video by John Sanborn, Cahill’s husband, this Sunday at Hertz Hall on the UC campus for Cal Performances’ 20th Century & Beyond music series. “As the war in Iraq was dragging on,” Cahill said, “I was trying to think of something to do about it. I didn’t feel any voice at all. So I started calling up composers I knew, asking them for music that had a vision of peace, including what was larger than just Iraq, wider in range. I’ve ended up getting new pieces all the time. It stretches me, musically speaking.”
“What I like is that she (Yoko Ono) looked in a different direction than everyone else. They were looking at the foreground; she was looking at the deep background; instead of in the world, in the self, something organic rather than topical or political. Very elemental.” “Yoko’s piece is very simple,” Cahill said, “She had the idea that piano music became so ornate and embellished in the 19th century that it’s important to get back to simplicity, to play just the basic chord, let it resonate more directly."
yoko ono at stanford: passages of light in january
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, on January 14th 2009:
Yoko Ono reflects on her life, work and public perception
Stanford News Service:
Q: "What would you say to critics who say these works are too - "
A: "I know. People say it is too simplistic, or whatever. Some people say, "Oh well, maybe when you get older you want to do something simple." I thought that was ageist. My work was always minimal. Minimalism—I believed in that. It was always very simple. I think it is as simple as breathing. Breathing is very important. I don't feel that that's bad. I was very surprised myself that the wish tree has become so important in people's lives. I'm very honored that I was used for that, instead of some very complex, highfalutin work. Sometimes something simple gives more to people."
"vote for peace" encourages citizen yoko ono
Orato (January 13th 2009): "Dear Friends. Hi. This is yoko ono. I fully support the idea of voting for a DEPARTMENT OF PEACE. Please read the following instructions and VOTE!"
hungarian police backtrack over missing ono/lennon film actress
The Daily Mail (January 16th 2009): Eva Majlath from Ono/Lennon film Rape made in 1969 has been missing since September 2008. "For 12 years Eva (nowadays) Rhodes has cared for abandoned cats and dogs at a sanctuary in Hungary funded partly by donations from animal lovers in England and a gift from Yoko Ono, with whom she made a film in the 1960s."
"peace, love and more than a few cliches"
A review of Yoko Ono's exhibition Between The Sky And My Head by Sydney Morning Herald (January 17th 2009): ""Imagine Peace" screams a billboard dominating BALTIC's vast north facade, overlooking the River Tyne, serving as a come-on and mantra for Ono's show (and entire oeuvre)."
lennon’s returned MBE
Reuters (January 6th 2009): "The Times in London ran an intriguing report on Tuesday saying that the honour bestowed upon Beatle John Lennon in 1965, which he returned to the queen four years later, had “finally been rediscovered”. (---) “It was not recently found, but it has been in the Central Chancery for some time,” the spokeswoman said. “I was asked that question (of its whereabouts) a few years ago,” she added. The spokeswoman explained that in cases where the original owner of a returned insignia dies, the Chancery would consider releasing it to the legal next of kin if such a request were made. That presumably means that Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono would have that right."
plastic ONO band live in january!
Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan, on January 21st 2009 with the following performers:
Chimera Music presents: The GOASTT - Sean Lennon & Charlotte Muhl If By Yes - Yuka Honda, Petra Haden, Yuko Araki & Hirotaka Shimizu Kemp & Eden - Charlotte Muhl & Eden Rice Yoko Ono Plastic ONO Band
Partial setlist
from EzTorrent (any corrections or additions will be welcome):
Papership
Dead Meat
Rainbows in Gasoline
You Are Something Else
India
Crazy (Willie Nelson)
Smoke And Mirrors
Into The Sun
You Feel Right
Small Talk
Freed
Ask The Elephant
Mind Train
World Was Made For Men
Calling
Mulberry
Don't Worry Kyoko
yoko ono: a feminist analysis
The Curvature: "Yoko Ono’s name is tossed around as an insult, sometimes “jokingly,” sometimes really and truly hatefully. Any woman who dates a male band member and expects to be treated like a person, or any woman who is seen to in some way cause a change in a male artist of any kind, is particularly at risk of being called “Yoko.”
george maciunas: the dream of fluxus
The Financial Times (January 3rd 2009): "Fluxus itself branched out in many different directions. Art was about making, but it was also about doing things out in the world. Performances were of central importance to the Fluxus group. The idea of authorship was not of paramount importance either - often Fluxus art projects consisted of schemes for activities which would be carried out by someone other than the person who had had the bright idea in the first place. So the realisation of the "art" could be passed from hand to hand without any loss of pressure or artistic integrity."
love cures on january 9th in miami
Artdaily.org: "ArtCenter/South Florida (“ACSF”) proudly partners with curator and artist Carolina Salazar to present Love Cures, a contemporary charity art auction exhibition benefiting the advancement of neuroblastoma research. Fifty emerging and established artists including Yoko Ono, William Wegman, Elizabeth Peyton, Carlos Betancourt, Pablo Cano and Michele OkaDoner were invited to interpret love into a unique work of art for this heart-warming exhibition. The opening reception on January 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. will kick-off a three-week show of auction pieces at ACSF (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). On view until February 1, 2009, bidding night will follow on February 5, 2009 at Miami Art Space in Wynwood."
Yoko Ono's piece in this auction is a 2004 white canvas overlaid with Plexiglas stamped with the fitting message “I Love You” ($1,100 minimum bid).
a john lennon cassette made in 1973 sold at auction
The Press Association (January 2nd 2009): "The never-publicly-heard cassette was made in 1973 by the former Beatle during his "lost weekend" period and has him substituting original lyrics with "debauched" amendments. It was sold as part of a collection of entertainment memorabilia which went under the hammer in Los Angeles. The six-minute recording has Lennon singing the 1957 Lloyd Price song Just Because. "
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