fluxus
in roskilde: "make a salad"
Artdaily (July 2008): "Fluxus
Scores and Instructions, The Transformative Years: “Make a salad.” looks
at the armature of the movement to think about the function of scores - what they
are, how they work, what they lead to…. Some are scores in the traditional
musical sense, some are instructions for events or performance, some describe
set-ups for situations or installations, and some are the work itself - that is,
the concept." Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde,
Denmark: Jun 7th - Sept 21st 2008 chanel
brings yoko's wish trees to central park
Gothamist (July 25th 2008):
"The latest art project to be plopped into a public space is Zaha Hadid's
Chanel Pavilion, a 7,500-square-foot temporary, traveling art gallery that has
a number of stamps on its passport already. The spaceship-esque pod will land
in Rumsey Playfield in Central Park by October 20th, and be open through November
9th -- housing artwork (including a piece by Yoko Ono) inspired by the Chanel
handbag, of course." nowhere
boy
BBC News (July 18th 2008): "Nowhere Boy, based on a book by
his half-sister, is being developed by Matt Greenhalgh who wrote Control, a biopic
of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. Greenhalgh said Julia Baird's
book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon had taken him "into
a world that illuminated so much about this legendary genius". "I could
see the drama and film immediately - the women in his life, the men who weren't,
the birth of rock and roll, all imposing on a brilliantly complicated adolescent
mind."
yoko
ono fly to warsaw in september
Press release: "The exhibition
FLY aims at bringing out decisive basic elements in Yoko Ono's extensive and diverse
artistic career. The exhibition is based on Yoko Ono's Instruction works, which
touch on or pose questions about the conceptual principles behind the art work,
the participation of spectators in its production and its material realization,
the ephemerality and de-sanctification of the object of art at the same time as
these works, which have strong social and political references, express the critical
vision of Yoko Ono." The works in the exhibition: Fly,
1970, 25 min film; Blue Room, 1966; Ex It, 1997; Amaze, 1971; Wish Tree, 1997;
Telephone piece for Warsaw, 2008; Fly, 1963 and Memory Painting, 2008 Warsaw
Centre for Contemporary Art: September 19th - October 18th 2008 SFMOMA
announces major overview of participation-based art
Artdaily: "On
view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from November 8, 2008,
through February 8, 2009, The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now presents an overview
of the rich and varied history of participatory art practice during the past six
decades, exploring strategies and situations in which the public has taken a collaborative
role in the art-making process. Among featured artists are
Joseph Beuys; John Cage; Fluxus Collective; Nam June Paik; Allan Kaprow; Yoko
Ono; Robert Rauschenberg; Mieko Shiomi; Wolf Vostell; and Andy Warhol.
light
for life benefit planned
The Daily Star (July 14th 2008): "The
11th annual Light for Life benefit art exhibit and silent auction for Catskill
Rural AIDS Services will be from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Roxbury Arts Group
Gallery on Vega Mountain Road in Roxbury. Organizers said they expect to have
100 original art works by prominent artists for sale. including Yoko Ono." beatles'
widows honour producer george martin
Reuters (July 13th 2008): "The
widows of former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison led an all-star tribute
on Saturday to Sir George Martin, the producer who moulded the Fab Four into the
world's most important pop music force. Martin, 82, received the Grammy Foundation
Leadership Award, in recognition of his humanitarian and charitable efforts."
john
lennon about religion
WorldNetDaily (July 13th 2008): "John Lennon,
famous for singing, "Imagine there's no heaven," is now said to have
been "on the side of Christ," according to his own words recently unearthed
from a long-lost radio interview." prefix
interviewed yoko ono
"You're making the remixes available as downloads.
Do you believe digital media is the future of music?" "Well, I don't
know if it's the future of music. Everything keeps on changing, so I can't say
exactly, but it seems like it's going that way. Of course it's easy to say, “This
is just free music.” But you don't say that about somebody making a car in
a factory. This is something that we really put all our efforts into -- making
good music. So music is also a commodity in that sense. You can't just say, “Let's
get it free.” imagine
peace project joins toronto's nuit blanche october 4th
CBC News (July
9th 2008): "Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace project is coming to Toronto this fall
as part of Nuit Blanche, the annual all-night festival of contemporary art. Ono's
Imagine Peace project involves a Wish Tree, based
on the Japanese tradition of tying wishes to the branches of a tree. Thousands
of Nuit Blanche visitors will tie their wishes for the world on trees near Lamport
Stadium. The event will also involve a large billboard saying
"Imagine Peace" that could be erected to face the Gardiner Expressway.
About 40,000 buttons with the slogan will be given to Nuit Blanche participants."
white
ribbon alliance for safe motherhood: matter of life or death
Dear G8
First Ladies (and First Man),
Every minute of every day a woman dies in pregnancy.
That’s half a million women dying each year; over 80% of these days are avoidable.
This is inexcusable and it has to stop now. Your partners can help do this.
 Read
the full petition sean
lennon interviewed
She Knows: "What’s interesting and this
is the truth about my mother and I, is that we are so close and we still are,
I grew up so close to her that I don’t even need to necessarily need to ask
what she thinks because we really have…I know that if I write a good song
she’s going to like it. There is not even a question. And she’s never
recorded a song and said ‘what do you think’ to me. Because
I come from her, in terms of my life and my artistic background, I come from the
place she created." beatles-based
game in the works
The Escapist: "Representatives of the group
are in negotiations with both Activision and MTV Games to create a new videogame
based on the band. A report in the Financial Times quotes
a source familiar with the discussions as saying any deal would be worth "several
million dollars," but must first pass muster with Apple Corps and EMI. While
no information regarding dates or formats can even be considered at this early
point, a successful deal to create the game would be a major coup." far
west in bristol will present mend peace for the world by yoko ono
"Internationally
renowned artist Yoko Ono will be presenting Mend
peace for the World a participatory work which invites visitors to produce
their own ornaments and pots from an assortment of broken crockery in the Gallery.
Arnolfini is calling for any unwanted crockery that you may have tucked away in
your homes for use in this exhibition." Far
West, Arnolfini, Bristol, Britain: June 28th - August 31st 2008
the
sydney biennale line-up is a who's who of experimental art
The Australian
(June 28th 2008): "The exhibit at the Art Gallery of NSW mostly comprises
historical works, mainly from the past 40 years. The line-up is a who's who of
experimental art: John Cage, Dan Graham, Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, Len Lye,
Man Ray, Mario Merz, Tina Modotti, Yoko Ono and Bruce Nauman."
Sydney
Biennale, Revolutions: Forms that Turn?, until September 7th yoko
ono's wish trees to pasadena
One
Colorado, Pasadena: August 2nd - November 9th 2008 shanghai
zendai museum of modern art presents
e-flux: "Intrude: Art and
Life 366 is an ambitious interdisciplinary and cross-cultural public art event
organized by the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China. From January
1st to December 31st 2008, a cultural event will take place everyday somewhere
in the city of Shanghai. Yoko Ono will bring part of her
solo show to Shanghai and will intrude the city with a series of billboards." it's
not only rock 'n' roll, baby!
Pitchfork: "From June 20 through
September 14, the Palais
Des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium will be hosting the visual art exhibit
"It's Not Only Rock 'n' Roll, Baby!", featuring work by a wide variety
of rock types, from Patti Smith, David Byrne, Yoko Ono, and Brian Eno to Pete
Doherty, Nick Zinner, Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros, and Devendra Banhart." 100
acorns - 100 days of conceptual instructions by yoko ono
Starting on
the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on June 15th 2008, Yoko Ono will
publish an acorn every day for 100 days at the event website. Yoko
Ono and acorns give peace
a chance (the remixes) digitally released on june 1st
ONO to issue
Give Peace A Chance (The Remixes) as a digital release
on June 1st 2008, the 39th anniversary of the historic original recording. yoko
ono loses lennon song legal bid
BBC News (June 3rd 2008): "Lennon's
widow and his two sons had sued the makers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,
claiming they used the song without permission. But US District Judge Sidney Stein
found in favour of the film-makers based on a "fair use" doctrine. Ono
said they planned to appeal against the decision." "death
and the artist", yoko ono's latest exhibition reviewed
Artnet
Magazine: "Yoko Ono’s current exhibition at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea,
"Touch Me," may be regarded as a signal event. The show includes two
videotapes of different versions of Cut Piece
(from 1965 and 2003), several works from the 1990s on the subject of memory, and
three interactive works that are new. Though the exhibition may assuage some of
her critics, the manipulative aspect of the interactive works remains a contentious
issue. The timing of her show, which coincides with the commemorations of the
revolutionary month of May ’68, is probably not accidental."
imagine
peace, featuring john & yoko's year of peace
Bucknell University,
PA: August 25th - October 8th 2008
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