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 [...]
“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 [...]
Having celebrated its tenth anniversary last year, this year’s edition of the Dream Power John Lennon Super Live will mark a new beginning, taking place once again on the anniversary of his passing, Thursday, December 8, at the Nippon Budokan. The concert was initiated at Yoko Ono’s behest to donate schools to children throughout the [...]
By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY John Lennon left this earth on Dec. 8, 1980. But the way Yoko Ono sees it, the Beatle’s joyously populist specter has never been busier. “Now that John’s a spirit, he has a different effect on people than when he was alive,” Ono, 78, says during a call [...]
The Legendary Artist And Musician Talks About Creating A More Connected World, Fashion As An Art Form And Tuning Into The Great Radio In The Sky By John-Paul Pryor, Topman For over forty years Yoko Ono has been promoting peace since the legendary billboard peace campaign she kicked off in 1969 with her late husband [...]
In the exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery, LIGHT (original title in Japanese 灯 あかり) , Ono will present a variety of works to bring light to the Japanese people in the wake of the tragic earthquake. Among the works in the exhibitions are: TO THE LIGHT, a large maze which people can walk through to find a light in the center; INVISIBLE PEOPLE, transparent human-shaped figures standing in dim lights in the darkness; works from REMNANTS, arranged and displayed broken furniture from a house that was destroyed in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on one of the works from REMNANTS, Ono created an edition work titled AIR CLOCK and will release it to the public for the first time in this exhibition. Ono will also inscribe messages of her hopes and thoughts in the gallery space with Japanese calligraphy.
Born in 1933, Yoko Ono has engaged with some of the most tragic and inspiring events of the 20th century – from the fire-bombing of Tokyo during the Second WOrld War and the death of her late husband, John Lennon, to her involvement with Fluxus and the ‘Bed-In for Peace’. Despite, or perhaps because of [...]
Yoko Ono inspires locally produced cartoon For Jerry Levitan, meeting John Lennon and Yoko Ono when he was 14 was a life-altering experience that continues to enrich his life. That’s one reason why he continues to spread their message through art. Now 57, Levitan, a local lawyer, children’s entertainer and Emmy Award-winning producer of the [...]
Come Together by David Stromberg, New York Times. Photograph by Neta Alonim On Sunday night, the fashion collective Three as Four opened its highly anticipated exhibition “Insalaam Inshalom” at the Beit Ha’Ir Center for Urban Culture in Tel Aviv, bringing to fruition a project over two years in the making. Covering the walls of the four-story building in fabric printed [...]
I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER ME / OBOETETE is a dramatic new installation of YOKO ONO dealing with shattered lives, loss and remembrance. Inspired by her own experiences of growing up in war-torn Japan, displacement and awareness of the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and now by the events of March 2011, ONO has created [...]
YOKO ONO: Wish Tree for Tokyo (MoCA Tokyo, Japan) December 9, 2011 Wish Tree for Tokyo, first on view in YES Yoko Ono spring 2004 at MOT, has been planted in the museum’s sculpture garden. The work has been donated by the artist to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo for its permanent collection. [...]
