An Open Letter to Presidents Obama and Karzai As champions of women’s rights who are dedicated to protecting women’s human rights, we are deeply concerned that the significant gains made by women and girls in Afghanistan may be threatened as U.S. and allied troops leave the country. We urge you to adopt a [...]
MOTHERS DAY
Sean took these photos when he took me for a walk in Central Park. He used his newly acquired camera, which was a Leica (german camera) that came out about 80 years ago. I was amazed how Sean operated the old camera smoothly and did a good job! Well, it was a nice Mother’s Day.
yoko
Invisible Art brings together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden. The exhibition includes work by some of the most important artists of our time as well as younger artists who have expanded on their legacy. From the amusing to the philosophical, there are works you [...]
Exhibition opening: Friday, 18th May 2012 at 7pm Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu 87 – 100 Toruń, Waly gen. Sikorskiego 13, Poland tel.: + 00 48 56 610 97 00 fax: + 00 48 56 621 07 24 info@csw.torun.pl Saturday 19th of May from 12 am to 12 pm for European Night of Museums, [...]
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! Dear Friends I would like to give an accolade to our mothers who passed away, without being acknowledged of the beautiful thing they did. They could have died trying to give birth to us. Giving birth was a very serious, uncomfortable, and dangerous matter. But nobody told our mothers that. She was [...]
MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL is a tribute to all Mothers of the World from each of your children; a celebration of the love that nurtures us all.
Upload your mother’s photo to one of these groups: Facebook, Flickr
Write her name, a note about her, to her and to yourself.
If it gets to be a love letter, a poem or a very long message or as long as a novel (!) that’s fine.
Make sure to squeeze her with big hugs and kisses in your mind
and send it with a sprinkle of i ii iii
Tag an Instagram with #mmib, write your tribute & see the gallery here.
WNYC Spinning On Air – 2 hours of David Garland with Yoko Ono Lennon & Sean Ono Lennon Listen to the show above. It aired live on Mothers Day, 13 May 2012 at 7-9pm ET Yoko Ono: Affirmations Why do people keep laughing at desert island jokes? That is because, secretively, we are [...]
Occupy Wall Street now has an A-list soundtrack: the compilation Occupy This Album, which was announced today and will be released sometime this spring. The record will feature music from Debbie Harry, Jackson Browne, Yoko Ono, Third Eye Blind, Crosby and Nash and many more. Several of the contributors, including Joan Baez and Crosby and Nash, performed at the New York OWS site while it was still active.
ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada will feature 10 pieces hand selected by the artist and will run throughout the summer months. The interactive pieces encourage visitors to participate- from hanging a personal wish on Wish Trees for Kitchener to proclaiming your love via a special code to mending broken pottery. Each piece allows the visitor to reflect on the message and make a contribution together to a larger work. “Think peace. Act Peace. Spread Peace. I love you!” – y.o. spring 2012.
Yoko Ono (born 1933, Tokyo) is a pioneering artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer, performance artist and peace activist. Her prolific career has spanned five decades – she has embraced a wide range of media, defying traditional boundaries and creating new forms of artistic expression. The Serpentine is delighted to present the work of artist Yoko Ono. [...]
May 6–August 27, 2012 MoMA, New York: Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists’ groups working in all mediums including painting, sculpture, film, video, audio, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of language—visual, aural, and beyond. The [...]
Enjoy Record Store Day! love, yoko
Released on Record Store Day (21 April 2012), The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends features collaborations with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Neon Indian, Ke$ha, Prefuse 73, Tame Impala, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lightning Bolt, Biz Markie, New Fumes, Chris Martin of Coldplay, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Together we will stand united for a sustainable future and call upon individuals, organizations, and governments to do their part.
Find out more about EARTH DAY at http://www.earthday.org/2012
Happy Earth Day! love, yoko
Message from TBB (via email): I cannot IMAGINE PEACE anymore Yoko. First John gave his life for peace. You live peace each and every day. So does Sean and Julian. I have to live it. I was in the Marines. I have Imagined Peace long enough. I have seen too much death and destruction [...]
Our story about the wish tree: BACKGROUND: We implemented this activity in our school: Preparatoria Emiliano Zapata which belongs to Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (a big public university en the state od Sinaloa in Mexico, our country). We did it before a festival we organize every year remembering John Lennon, where we refer to his [...]
XV Woman Biennale Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Corso Porta Mare 5, 44121 Ferrara, Italy Dal Saturday 21 April 2012 al Sunday 10 June 2012 Ufficio stampa Studio Pesci Gli artisti correlati Loredana Longo, Lydia Schouten, Naiza H. Khan, Nancy Spero, Regina José Galindo, Valie Export, Yoko Ono Curatori Lola Bonora, Silvia Cirelli Comunicato stampa evento: VIOLENCE. L’arte [...]
Sixties singing star Marianne Faithfull co-curating a new exhibition at Tate Liverpool. The 65-year-old singer- songwriter and actress has taken inspiration from her own life and influences to choose pieces from the Tate collection. The show, ‘Innocence and Experience’, which runs from April 20 to September 2, is co-curated with the Albert Dock Gallery’s Darren [...]
IRELAND’S INAUGURAL DUBLIN BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART 15th June – 24th June 2012 Dublin Biennial Gallery Point Village, East Wall, Dublin 1 http://www.dublinbiennial.com ARTIST RECEPTION & PREVIEW – Thursday 14th June 6-9pm GALA OPENING BLOOMSDAY – Saturday 16th June 12-3pm OPERATIONAL HOURS – Monday – Sunday 12- 8pm The exhibit is the first [...]
Dear Friends
Here are some books and magazines I recommend.
Please share your favorite books in the comments
…for us all to enjoy.
love, yoko
