yoko ono talk: tragedy, art, and peace
Tokyo Art Beat (August 9th 2011): "The icon offers advice for the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami."
"The question time, which took up the majority of the ninety-minute session, was almost like a performance art piece. People were invited to approach the microphone set close to the stage. A long line of audience members took this as a rare opportunity to interact with their hero. She obliged each person and offered answers on art, peace, love, action, national identity, fashion, and anything else she was asked about. At the end of the evening, a handful of people missed their chance to ask a question and went back to their chairs with tears in their eyes."
yoko ono - an invisible flower: a new book published in august
A beautiful new art book by Yoko Ono has been published in Japanese by Chimera Library & ADP this August. An English version of the book will be published by Chronicle Books in April 2012. About the book: "This elegant little art book is a never-before-published treasure written and illustrated by Yoko Ono in 1952, when she was 19 years old, at the advent of her artistic career. Featuring whimsical hand-drawn text and minimalist drawings in chalk pastel, this sweet story tells of an invisible beauty that we all know, but cannot see. But there is one person who can see it: ‘Smelty John.’"
the sculptures' walk in valencia spain features art by yoko ono
Guide to Valencia: "(--) City of the Arts and Sciences, a free access green area of some 7,000 square metres, 320 metres long and 60 metres wide. Within it houses El Paseo de las Esculturas (The Sculptures' Walk), an art gallery out in the open air with sculptures by contemporary sculptors, such as Miquel Navarro or Yoko Ono."
clap clap riot releases a song called "yoko ono"
Undertheradar website offers download of the song and you can also watch the music video by Clap Clap Riot.
yoko ono's imagine peace tower to be lit sunday in tribute to norway victims
The Examiner (August 20th 2011): "The Imagine Peace Tower will be lit Aug. 21 to pay tribute to the victims of the July 22 attacks in Norway at Oslo and Utøya. Norway has designated Aug. 21 as an official day of mourning and remembrance for the victims of the shootings. “I hope the Imagine Peace Tower will give light to the strong wishes of World Peace from all corners of the planet and give encouragement, inspiration and a sense of solidarity in a world now filled with fear and confusion," Yoko Ono said in a statement. Ono created the tower as an artwork in memory of the late John Lennon."
yoko ono plastic ono band will appear in an icelandic music festival in october
The Line of Best Fit: "The festival, which runs from 12-16 of October in Reykjavík, also sees more Icelandic additions, including GusGus, For a Minor Reflection, Kippi Kaninus and Mógil. Among those already announced for the festival are hometown girl Björk and The Line of Best Fit favourites Niki & the Dove and Beach House."
CDC museum looks at a history of violence against women
Creative Loafing Atlanta (July 1st 2011): "Forty-six years after its debut, Yoko Ono's performance "Cut Piece" remains powerful enough to take your breath away. Ono's work resembles a date rape in slow motion as audience members are invited to slowly cut away the artist's clothing. Unseen men in the audience cackle as one man cuts away her brassiere, and a stricken look clouds Ono's face. Yes, sexual violence is happening far away in Darfur or Liberia — and the exhibit confirms that — but "Cut Piece" is a reminder that it also persists close to home."
a yoko ono film opens festival in spoleto, italy
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (July 1st 2011): "The Without Borders Film Festival in Umbria kicks off its fourth season on Friday with the world premiere of an animated film written and narrated by Yoko Ono. (--)
My Hometown, directed by Jerry Levitan and Terry Tomkins and written by Yoko Ono, is an animated short that features children from across the world describing their ideas of home, hope, and love, accompanied by John Lennon's Remember Love, the b-side to the 1969 single Give Peace a Chance. "
yoko ono interviewed: "life is full of great laughs"
The Morton Report (June 20th 2011): "How were you first discovered?
Yoko: "I was first discovered by my mother, coming out of her. She looked at me after I was scrubbed clean and was sleeping. She said I had an air of a great person even with my eyes closed. My father, sadly, was in another country at the time."
yoko ono and yellow magic orchestra set for big in japan at hollywood bowl
Broadway World (June 21st 2011): "Yoko Ono joins Yellow Magic Orchestra in a special guest appearance for Big in Japan at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, June 26 at 7 p.m. An innovative and influential force on music and art, Japanese avant pop pioneer Yoko Ono broke artistic barriers in both ethnicity and gender to become one of the most important and enduring artists of the last half-century. Big in Japan at the Hollywood Bowl brings together the biggest names in Japanese pop music for a one-of-a-kind concert that spans genres and generations. Iconic Japanese electro-pop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra (with original members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi) return for their first show in L.A. since 1979; and after 10 years, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori reunite Cibo Matto for this special night."
art as a form of activism
YOOX (June 28th 2011): "Art is the only field in which you can still do things. Politicians are stuck in red tape. Artists are still relatively free to express themselves. The reason is the politicians don’t take artists too seriously. “What can they do?” is the way they think of us. It’s a blessing. Because we are doing it!"
gold lennon coin sells
Numismatic News (June 30th 2011): "A unique gold version of a 2010 £5 coin from the British Channel Island of Alderney depicting Beatle John Lennon sold for $119,780, including a 24 percent value added tax. It was sold June 29 by the Bonhams auction house in London. The coin was specially created by the British Royal Mint for Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow. Ono donated the coin for the benefit of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, Lennon’s hometown. The “Imagine” appeal is the beneficiary and it helps fund the hospital."
the next album by yoko ono is in the works
BP Fallon: "Sean Lennon is mixing Yoko Ono’s new record that features Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and also RZA from The Wu-Tang Clan. It’s very moving, seeing Sean working here putting his heart into the art he learned from his parents in this very same room. The album by Yoko will be released on Sean’s Chimera Records. And what does it sound like? It sounds like the end of the world." Can't wait!
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