a report of a tiny truth
Serpentine Gallery Manifesto by Yoko Ono, October 18th 2008
yoko ono: the six-pack Q&A
In an older issue of Rolling Stone (October 6th 2007):
Q: "When will you know it’s time to retire?"
A: "The word retirement is not in my dictionary."
the beatles in scotland: stuart sutcliffe's story
Scottish Sunday Mail (November 9th 2008): "At the Students' Union Committee, Stuart struck up a friendship with Bill Harry, who in turn introduced him to a new student, Lennon. It was almost a year after Lennon first shook hands with McCartney. Lennon was a poor scholar, often skipping classes to play guitar while Stuart was quieter, dedicated to his art. But it was natural John should invite his new best pal to join his band, The Quarrymen. Painting was OK but rock'n'roll will make you a star, was the message from Lennon."
crawdaddy! founder on his experience at the bed-in for peace 1969
"John and Yoko were playing together, doing the unexpected, riding the wild tide of the times and of their particular role in the eye of the storm, spontaneously, naively, courageously, egotistically, and good-naturedly turning it into theater, music, politics, art."
beatles music to be in new video game
Associated Press (November 1st 2008): "For the first time, the legendary group's music will be featured in the lucrative video game market in a deal with MTV Games and Harmonix, creators of the "Rock Band" series. The game is scheduled to make its debut in time for next year's holiday season. "The project is a fun idea which broadens the appeal of The Beatles and their music. I like people having the opportunity to get to know the music from the inside out," Paul McCartney said in a statement."
Yoko Ono tells Entertainment Weekly, "All of us are actually pretty hip, so we said yes. I'm personally very excited. (The game) lets you participate in a way where you're really (immersed in) the music. "With so many young kids into The Beatles, it's a start to a beautiful new page in (the band's) history. Maybe they'll start to make music and not just listen to it, and really understand what it's about."
the diva surgery
Times Union (October 30th 2008): "What is the soul of Janis Joplin? According to San Antonio, Texas, artist Dario Robleto, it's pulverized vinyl of recordings from live performances at the historic 1967 Monterey festival. Yoko Ono? Butterfly nectar. Joni Mitchell? Pearls. Nico? A syringe filled with yearning and devotion. All are part of "The Diva Surgery," a glass-encased collection of scalpels, tweezers, tracheal extractors, Novocain, sugar, sulfur, ocean water, crushed cubic zirconium, oil, beeswax and polyester resin that aims at a pseudo-scientific examination of the divas' essences. It is but one of 27 works that make up the survey of Robleto's work called "Alloy of Love," which is on exhibit at Skidmore College's Tang Teaching Museum until Jan. 28."
yoko ono wish trees to remain in arlington garden
Pasadena Now (October 30th 2008): "Arlington Garden in Pasadena will be the new home for the 21 crape myrtle trees that have formed an integral component of the Yoko Ono Wish Trees for Pasadena art installation that has been on display at One Colorado since August 2. (--) The 21 crape myrtle trees themselves will then be relocated to Arlington Garden and planted there permanently. A formal dedication and ceremony to welcome the trees to their new home will be held on Saturday, November 15 from 10:00 to 12 noon at Arlington Garden. "It is our hope that these trees, which have served such a useful purpose as part of this wonderful art installation, can now rest and build new life in this public garden," says Betty McKenney, co-founder of Arlington Garden with her husband Charles. "We will be dedicating these trees to Yoko Ono, and to the spirit that she has ignited in people all over the world."
liverpool biennial: a step in the right direction
Liverpool Echo (October 20th 2008): "There are now 26 ladders in the city centre church grounds, but Yoko, 75, wants members of the public to donate more to bring the artwork to life over the ten weeks of the art festival. Yoko Ono: “I want to see the church full of ladders reaching up to the sky. “The way the church has been preserved makes it like a sculpture. “It is open to the sky and I love that people have left messages on the ladders for everyone to read. I try my best to give something back to the people of Liverpool - because they’ve been so sweet to me, I’m trying to return sweetness to them.” To donate a ladder, email skyladders@biennial.com
chanel mobile art exhibit opens today in central park
The New York Observer (October 20th 2008): "Mobile Art remains open until November 9th. Afterwards, it blasts off for London, Moscow, and Paris. Tickets are free." Wish Tree by Yoko Ono is one of the exhibits.
asian/american/modern art: shifting currents, 1900-1970
Artdaily.org: "Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970, on view October 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, at the de Young Museum is the first comprehensive survey of Asian American modernism. Asian/American/Modern explores the wide range of influences across cultural boundaries on artists such as Ruth Asawa, Chang Dai-chien, Yun Gee, Dong Kingman, Isamu Noguchi, Chiura Obata, Yoko Ono, Alfonso Ossorio, Nam June Paik, and Tseng Yuho."
one view of the frieze key note speech by yoko ono
Mail & Guardian (October 24th 2008): "The Onochord is a plastic torch about the size of a cigarette, attached to a handy key ring, and it is meant to be flashed at other people — your lover, your mother, the Metro cop who pulls you over for unpaid fines — so that they will know that you love them."
on john lennon's birthday: imagine peace
Yoko Ono's message on John Lennon's birthday on October 9th.
imagine peace tower lit again and lennono grant for peace awarded
This year's award goes to the country of Iceland and Dr. Vandana Shiva
yoko ono imagine peace featuring john & yoko's year of peace
This travelling exhibition will be on display at Visual Arts Gallery of New Jersey City University, New Jersey: October 27th - December 8th 2008
2008 SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of Contemporary Materials has been given to Kevin Concannon, University of Akron associate professor of art history, for Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace, Featuring John and Yoko's Year of Peace. Congratulations, Kevin!
secret postcard exhibition and auction at sotheby's
The Independent (October 18th 2008): "Art-lovers can choose to buy one of about 2,000 postcards produced by the country's most established artists, fashion designers and photographers, including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, David Bailey and Zandra Rhodes, as well as unidentified student artists, for £40. What makes the show so exciting is that the signature on the back of the postcard is only revealed after it has been bought." This year's sale will include contribution from Yoko Ono.
rockers: the photos of bob gruen at the morrison hotel through nov 2
LAist (October 16th 2008): "Bob Gruen is a stealth artist. He’s one of those people that’s had a tremendous impact on rock and roll culture, produced work that’s been seen and loved by virtually everybody, whether they knew the name of its creator or not. His first solo exhibition in town, Rockers, now on display at Morrison Hotel, provides a sidelong glance at the decadent 1970s from one of its most illustrious observers."
nothing is real - an animated fantasy film about john lennon's life
The Scotsman (October 15th 2008): "Alan Aldridge was The Beatles’ official design consultant. An animated fantasy film about John Lennon's life, entitled Nothing is Real, has been approved by Yoko Ono, but is yet to see the light of day. Aldridge is philosophical about these setbacks: "Projects are forever," he says. "When you write a novel it's still going to be there 200 years later. Somebody might find it at some point in the future and say 'wow, the world could really use this."
why john longed to be jock lennon
The Observer (October 12th 2008): "He never forgot his childhood holidays in the Scottish village of Durness. Now it is remembering him. The young Lennon would visit his Scottish relatives with his cousin Stan Parkes, who today lives along the coast from Glasgow and vividly recalls those childhood holidays. 'John just loved the wildness and the openness of the place,' he said. 'We went fishing and hunting and John loved going up into the hills to draw or write poetry. John really loved hill walking, shooting and fishing. He used to catch salmon. He would have been quite a laird.' In Durness today there are people who still remember the young Lennon. 'John Lennon's Private Passion', written and presented by Sarfraz Manzoor, is on Radio 4 (Britain)."
ono celebrates lennon's 68th with "imagine peace" exhibit
Gothamist (October 10th 2008): "Last night (on what would have been his 68th birthday), the Openhouse Gallery in SoHo opened their exhibit "Imagine Peace," displaying over 100 of John Lennon's drawings. The installation will be around through the weekend, and it'll cost you $2 to get in, with the money going towards City Meals-on-Wheels."
another show, imagine: the art of john lennon, in australia
The West Australian (October 10th 2008): "“There’s an incredible power in these pictures,” Ono Lennon said. “John was very truthful in a lot of his art. He wanted people to know him, not as some kind of angelic, perfect person, but as someone who was trying very hard to be good, not always succeeding, but always showing his human side.”
“I think it’s really important for people to get out and look at it, especially now when so many people are sitting in their apartments, too scared to go out into the world. We all seem frightened of something at the moment, but these drawings tell us that we must remember love.”
five-minute fashion file: yoko ono
Gay.com (October 2008): "Two things I love are eyeglasses and hats, two very strange things. Sometimes my haircut is looking so good, and I think that it's such a pity that I can't show it under my hat. But the reason why is that whenever I wear hats I feel comfortable. I recently saw a video of me from when I was 3 years old and visiting my father in San Francisco. I was wearing a hat, and I always remember my mother saying that you have to make sure your hat and shoes go together. It was very important that I dressed right. In this film, I'm always wearing a hat, so it started then."
lennon's sister tells of 'disgust' for biography
The Independent (October 11th 2008 ): "John is no longer around to defend himself from some of the bizarre, sordid and downright scurrilous rumours that sadly surround his extraordinary life. It makes me so sad, especially in recent weeks, when all manner of accusations have been flying about," Julia Baird said. The publication of Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life has reignited speculation over the rock icon's early years. "John was removed from our mother, Julia, at the age of five to live with his aunt Mimi. He was not abandoned nor was he unloved – despite what the accepted tale might be. I'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate once more the love our mother Julia had for John and I," Ms Baird said."
Also about Norman's biography: "A goodnight kiss.for Sean":
Denver Post: "Of Lennon's last night alive, Monday, Dec. 8, 1980, Norman writes that after Lennon quit working with Yoko in their studio, they decided to go out to dinner around 10:30 p.m. He first called his Aunt Mimi to talk about his planned homecoming to Liverpool. Yoko says she suggested going straight to eat but that John wanted to go back to their home at the Dakota mansion block, saying he to had to give his son Sean his goodnight kiss. "The last thing he had on his mind," Yoko remembers, "was getting Brad Pitt back and seeing Sean before he went to sleep."
yokohama triennale until november 30th
Time (October 9th 2008): "The theme of this year's Yokohama Triennale is "Time Crevasse." While the title sounds vague, what's clear is that art aficionados who find themselves in the port city, just southwest of Tokyo, are in for a surprise. Running until Nov. 30, Yokohama's third Triennale is one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary art ever staged in Japan and comprises the work of around 70 artists, including Matthew Barney, Yoko Ono, Jonathan Meese, Rei Naito and Mario García Torres. Many of the exhibits are edgy and performance-based (a characteristic heralded at the event's launch, when Italian artist Lorenzo Fiaschi took a sledgehammer to 16 large framed mirrors)."
ono helps out veterans for peace
The Ann Arbor News (October 9th 2008): "Yoko Ono has donated $10,000 to the south central Michigan Chapter of Veterans for Peace in connection with the group's benefit concert Friday for its Peace Studies Scholarship Fund. Ono's gift, and all proceeds from the concert, will to go the Peace Scholarship Fund. Ono found out about the concert when Bob Krzewinski, the chapter secretary, contacted her agent for permission to use her late husband's name in connection with the event, "Imagine - A John Lennon Birthday Benefit Concert.''
ono and EMI to drop imagine lawsuit
Stanford Law School (October 7th 2008): "The Fair Use Project of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society today announced that Yoko Ono and EMI Records have withdrawn all claims filed against Premise Media. The dismissal follows failed attempts by Yoko Ono in federal court and EMI Records in state court to enjoin Premise Media’s documentary, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” because it uses a 15-second clip of a John Lennon song."
in photos: 2008 americans for the arts annual national arts awards
Monsters and Critics (October 7th 2008): Yoko Ono photo 2
The 2008 Americans for the Arts honorees included Yoko Ono.
sympathy for the devil: art and rock and roll since 1967
A group exhibition in Montreal includes a central place by Yoko Ono in the section titled "Ono, Eno, Arto: Non-musicians and the Emergence of Concept Rock".
park nights: manifesto marathon - manifestos for the 21st century
This futurological congress will present manifestos for the 21st century by leading artists, architects, scientists, writers and philosophers, among them Yoko Ono. October 18th and 19th 2008, London.
did one catch your attention?
Vindy (October 2008): "Are you wondering what the meaning is behind a handful of billboards that have popped up in recent weeks around the Mahoning Valley? Like the one that says “War Is Over” on Route 422 in Niles, or the one of a woman’s high-heeled shoe kicking through muddy water on Market Street in Boardman? The billboards were put up by the McDonough Museum of Art to call attention to its new exhibition, “AGENCY: Art and Advertising.” But they make no reference to the exhibition. Inquiring minds have to seek out the meaning. The McDonough erected them a few weeks ago to silently build buzz among the curious. The exhibition explores artists’ use of advertising media for works of art, as opposed to the more conventional use of advertising, said museum spokesperson Johanna George."
close encounters: facing the future
Roll Call (October 3rd 2008): "There aren’t many museums in D.C. showing anything as bold as American University’s Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Where else in D.C. is there anything like Sandow Birk’s wood-carved depictions of American soldiers’ mistreatment of Iraqis?
The third floor offers what might be the most obscure exhibit and also the most sobering work by Yoko Ono, called “Ex It.” About 20 wooden boxes similar to the coffins fallen soldiers are put in for transport from the war zone to American soil are on the floor in orderly rows. A tree grows out of each box, and Ono’s piece incorporates both dead and live trees. Ono made sure that her boxes were in three different sizes with three different-sized trees growing out of them. The coffins might be interpreted in a number of ways by viewers, Rasmussen said. They could be perceived as a comment on war or on the coffins of returning soldiers the public isn’t allowed to see."
"they stormed the museum's glass ceiling"
The Globe and Mail (October 2008): "In the 1960s and seventies, North American women fighting for gender equality burned their bras, marched for access to abortion, and demanded the right to wear pants to school. And while some women today may feel they've come a long way, baby, and smugly proclaim the need for a feminist movement to be dead, they may want to turn their gaze south of the border, where debate rages over whether Sarah Palin, the anti-abortion Republican candidate for vice-president, qualifies as a feminist; and where there was at best a muted outcry following a heckler's suggestion that Hillary Clinton, who was making her own run at the White House, iron his shirt. It seems the time may indeed be ripe for a discussion about feminism.
In a lucky accident of timing, the Vancouver Art Gallery today launches the all-female exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. An exhaustive survey, the show features works from more than 100 female artists who were active during the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies, including such seminal feminist artists as Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois and Yoko Ono."
"once maligned, now revered artist brings star power to nuit blanche"
Toronto Star (October 2nd 2008): "Ono's work, with its roots in the process-minded Fluxus movement in New York in the early '60s, has generally avoided the production of objects in favour of exposure of these ideas. "I know, even now people say I am naive," she says. Her work "seems to bring out the hatred in some people. But I am a rebel. From the start I didn't like the idea that artists had to have such (big) egos that they had to create something that would last an eternity. I went against that (idea). It wasn't my thing."
concrete and glass festival in london oct 2nd/3rd
The Guardian (October 3rd 2008): "Featuring more than 100 bands and 20 commissioned exhibitions across 35 venues, this two-day event is an attempt to marry two art forms for which east London is famous. The area is home to Tracey Emin and Gilbert and George, and has produced numerous bands, from the Libertines to Bloc Party."
"I Love U, a participation painting from Yoko Ono, offers visitors the chance to add a few brush strokes of their own."
Yoko Ono's piece belongs to a presentation by Riflemaker: initiating an ‘imaginary record-store’, ‘Glass Onion’, exploring the relationship and links between art/music/art.
the ICA auction features ono's my mommy was beautiful
The press release: "The proceeds will help establish a commissioning fund for emerging artists, and provide vital resources for an ambitious new education programme."
frieze talks 2008: "passages of light" on october 17th 2008
Yoko Ono will present a keynote lecture, demonstrating the continued importance of the performative practices and engagement with audiences that she has pursued since the 1960s. The event takes place in London, Britain.
Frieze Talks, a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions taking place in the Auditorium at Frieze Art Fair, is presented by Frieze Foundation in collaboration with frieze magazine. Tickets
a new yoko ono biography
Yoko Ono - a Portrait of an Avant-Garde Artist by Biographiq, 2008.
grapefruit
as an idea
Joan E. Stoltman's thesis "Engage, Perform, Act: How
Contemporary Artists Use the Book as Form and the Book as Idea" involves
also Yoko Ono's book Grapefruit: "Grapefruit's readers are intrinsic to the
realization of the artworks; since they are inestimable, the book's potential
is inestimable."
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