lennon naked digs beneath the skin of john’s family relationships
Herald Scotland (June 21st 2010): "This is the guy everyone always thought was ahead of the rest, always the sharpest in any room. But Jones’s script draws heavily from Lennon’s bitter interview with Wenner, which perhaps leads to a slightly skewed perspective. Yes, there was all that acid, all that anger, all the defensiveness and all that heavy tension. But wasn’t there some fun, too? Lennon Naked is a strong piece, but what gets lost is what often gets lost when we look back: a sense of how young the guy really was, beneath that scabrous surface. How young he was when doing all this, writing all those songs, getting through all those nights. Once again, the lost boy who was never allowed to grow old gets made old, before his time."
lennon's 70th birthday celebrated at radio city music hall
Broadwayworld (June 21st 2010): "On September 25th at legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City, The Fab Faux will present ‘A Night In The Life - A John Lennon 70th Birthday Celebration. A portion of the evening's proceeds will benefit 'Spirit Foundation' - a charitable foundation set up by John Lennon and Yoko Ono."
mrs lennon - songs by yoko ono
Johann Heyss about this new tribute record project: "Her last albums were praised by the critics, which was nearly impossible in the past and as unlikely as her current dancefloor diva status. John Lennon was indeed right regarding Mrs. Lennon’s peculiar talent. So it’s just fair that music lovers get to know better Yoko Ono, the composer."
a new exhibition: yoko ono - i'll be back This exhibition has been conceived especially for the Studio Miscetti gallery space, as an installation incorporating a dialogue with Italian Futurists’ fervor, using images, sound, appropriations and alterations.
STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI, Rome, Italy: May 25 - October 30th 2010
grey partners with yoko ono in music seminar at cannes
PR Newswire (May 21st 2010): "Grey New York announced today that its fourth annual Music Seminar with Living Legends will feature Yoko Ono on Friday, June 25, at the Debussy. The 2010 Cannes event follows three years of high popularity for the Grey music seminar with legends Stevie Van Zandt in 2009, Tony Bennett in 2008, and John Legend and Donavan in 2007. (--) In Grey's annual seminar on music and its place in marketing communications, Yoko Ono will discuss today's music scene and the impact on brands and bands, her own adventurous music and performance art created over a high-profile lifetime, perhaps never as critically appreciated as it is today, and her extraordinary life with John Lennon and raising her musician son Sean Lennon. Yoko will be interviewed by Tim Mellors, Worldwide Creative Director of Grey Group, and introduced by Josh Rabinowitz, Director of Music, Grey New York."
ni una mas (not one more): the juarez murders
"Since 1993, more than 600 young women and girls have been the victims of an ongoing terror in the city and surrounding area of Juarez, Mexico, an area just across the river/border from El Paso, Texas The majority are Mexican, but a number are American citizens. Nearly all are young students and factory girls--maquiladoras between the ages of 14 and 22. Some are missing without a trace, but hundreds have been discovered dead in multiple sites in the nearby desert. (--) Twenty notable artists—men, women, Latino and American bear witness to the many faces and facets of this tragedy."
Drexel Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia: May 15th - July 16th 2010
yoko ono give me something (sparks reinvention) song premiere
Spinner (May 2010): "Ono says that she wrote the song in a flurry of inspiration right before she went into the studio. "I don't remember if anything specific inspired me," she confesses. "I remember I was envisioning a gray, cold city with people walking with hands in their pockets and putting the collars of their coats up." Listen to the track at the Spinner website
my mommy is beautiful - for mother's day
Join Yoko Ono's Mother's Day Facebook group: "By urging us to celebrate the maternal love we experienced as children, or perhaps much later in life, My Mommy Is Beautiful engages our most personal memories. Please write your messages and upload your photos to this Facebook group, so that soon it will be filled with thousands of tributes to the love that nurtures us all."
wish tree for oberlin
Beginning May 3rd and running through May 7th, Yoko Ono will present her piece "Wish Tree for Oberlin." Also "A Conversation with Yoko Ono" will take place at Oberlin College, Ohio.
