FLUXFEST CHICAGO 2012 February 9th – 12th, 2012 Feb 9th 5:00pm – 7:30pm FROM THE ARCHIVE Mailart and Fluxus from the archives of Fluxus/St. Louis. Opening reception Chicago Art Institute, Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection. 37 S. Wabash, 5th Floor. Feb 10th 2:00pm – 5pm FLUX IT YOURSELF Scores and Performances by Contemporary Fluxus. Publication [...]
An exhibition of works by John Cage including prints, drawings, multiples, and scores. With Friends includes works by William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Graves, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Tom Marioni, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, [...]
Dear Friends: Unfortunately, it looks as if President Obama just jumped on the fracking bandwagon. The state of the Union address featured an explicit endorsement of shale gas and fracking. There needs to be a massive outcry from us. Perhaps we can talk him down off the ledge. He needs to know that we [...]
At Dawn – Yoko Ono interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist For the eighth time the “Digital-Life-Design” Conference takes place from January 22nd until January 24th in Munich. The name says it all as the dialogue about art and design is strongly connected with an interdisciplinary exchange. With this aspiration in mind DLD presents a series [...]
Yoko Ono: Our Beautiful Daughters January 13 – March 10, 2012 Vadehra Art Gallery, D-178, Okhla Phase 1, New Delhi 110020, India. A parallel exhibition, The Seeds, exhibiting Ono’s earlier work, will run at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi 11024, India. Performance: Yoko Ono: To India With Love - 15 January 2012 Stein Auditorium, [...]
Let’s sing, dance and hug each other to bring in a new year and with it, a new world. Yoko Ono 1 January 2011 YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND played at The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freak Out #5, two shows December 31 and January 1 at Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center in Oklahoma [...]
National Candlelit vigil, January 8, 2012 Yoko Ono joins Too Many Victims Campaign The Brady Campaign announces today that Yoko Ono Lennon has joined the Too Many Victims Campaign and has issued a simple message of peace to all standing up to light a candle on Sunday, the first anniversary of the tragic mass shooting [...]
Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park
Make a wish.
Ask the tree to send your wishes
to all the trees in the world.
For Truth, Justice and Peace.
y.o. ’11
“At/around/beyond: Fluxus at Rutgers University” September 24, 2011 – April 01, 2012 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Eisenberg Gallery 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick. Information: Exhibition & Travel. Tel: (732) 932-7237. Facebook Fluxus celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2012. A radical, experimental, and multimedia art movement of the mid-twentieth century that continues to influence [...]
The Flaming Lips have released the final of their (almost) monthly 2011 releases at the New Year Freakout, a collaborative EP with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. Each of the Limited Edition (2000 only) psychedelic, multi-color, glow-in-the-dark 12″ vinyl records is a one-of-kind piece of art. Let’s sing, dance and hug each other to bring [...]
By Amy McGrath, Reverb Yoko Ono has been a hero in my life since my early teenage years. She is a woman on the vanguard in so many ways — her avant-garde music has always been years ahead of its time, her conceptual art is full of quirky humor and simple beauty, and she has [...]
Message from Yoko Ono: To the Mayor & City of Oklahoma I am so thrilled & honoured that today, 31st Dec has been proclaimed “Yoko-lahoma City Day” and I look forward to us all celebrating the New Year together at the Bricktown Events Center tonight & tomorrow night with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, The [...]
Hi Yoko, I had this crazy idea … let’s see how far we can take this…. the thing is when you and John started this all those years ago we didn’t all have computers and our own printers… now, one by one we can make a statement from our own front window… I printed out [...]
Dear Ms. Ono Yoko, Hello! We are students at Hukuoka Senior High School in Iwate, Japan. Our school just celebrated its 110th anniversary this year! There are 521 students in our school at present. Some notable graduates of our school include graphic artist Fukuda Shigeo and physicist Tanakadate Aikitsu, who also invented Nihon-shiki Romanization. [...]
Selkirk College Peace Studies students put on a display called ‘An Alternative Timeline of History’, on Nov 29, 2011. What made this timeline unique is that is showed historical events highlighting nonviolence. Many of the history books and traditional timelines we learn from feature wars, conquests and military heroes, whereas this timeline displayed history from [...]
Dear Yoko (and John), Today, your WAR IS OVER message has a very special meaning. In papers and on TV they are saying that this global economic crisis is our World War III, and maybe they are right because there’s a lot of people suffering due to the cuts in the welfare systems, the increasing [...]
The Globe of Goodwill is a beautiful work of art and a delightful collector’s piece, but its contents give it its true value – love and friendship. All proceeds will be donated to work for the benefit of children and other young people with disabilities. The name of The Globe is therefore symbolic of what it represents.
Beatles legend Ringo Starr unveiled his self-designed replica “Knotted Gun” statue for the Non-Violence Foundation in the Gibson Guitar Studio in Central London today. He urged others to back the Non-Violence Project campaign. Thursday, December 8 marks 31 years since John Lennon was murdered and Ringo Starr is aiming to spread Lennon’s famous message [...]
John Lennon 1940-1980. Please write your tributes in the comments here:
