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, [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 is the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land art, capturing the simultaneous impulse emergent in the 1960s to use the earth as an artistic medium and to locate works in remote sites far from familiar art contexts. Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Philipp Kaiser [...]
John Cage war als Komponist, Musiker, Philosoph, Literat und Denker so einflussreich und hoch geachtet wie kaum ein anderer Künstler in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Doch sein Werk als bildender Künstler und sein Einfluss auf die Kunst sind viel weniger bekannt als seine Musik. Die Ausstellung, kuratiert von Wulf Herzogenrath, stellt Cage als [...]
Trees are the focus of a three-part exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. “Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought,” inspired by the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat (the New Year for the Trees), is on view through May 28. Part One is The Dorothy Saxe Invitational. More than 50 artists from across the [...]
YOKO ONO: MOMENT By the late 1950s, Yoko Ono had already begun creating poetic works in which text, music, performance and experimental painting merge. The exhibition has its starting point in Grapefruit, which Yoko Ono (b. 1933) published in 1964. This book contains ideas and sketches for painting, events, films, dance, music, painting, objects and [...]
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 [...]
An installation of doors and figurative transparent sculptures form the nucleus of multi-media artist Yoko Ono’s second solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong, Uncursed. Yoko Ono says: When we were children, we learnt at our elementary school how the warrior, Shikanosuke Yamanaka, vowed to endure seven misfortunes and eight sufferings, thereby giving all the negative things [...]
PRECOGNITO & INCOGNITO 2012 March 15- 17, 2012 INCOGNITO Saturday, March 17, 7 – 10 pm Doors open at 7 pm sharp With original artworks by 500 contemporary artists, INCOGNITO features work by luminaries including Yoko Ono, John Baldessari, Mark Bradford, and Judy Chicago, as well as a host of emerging talent. This spirited evening encourages attendees—from [...]
Miracles, Art, Science & Religion 4 March 2012 to 1 July 2012 Opening Sat, 03. March 2012, 11:00 The miracle is a concept that breaks through boundaries. This exhibition makes use of its explosive potential, following the traces of the miraculous in different disciplines and throughout different periods in history. Centered around works of contemporary [...]
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan Section 1: Reality/Ordinary world The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, presents the exhibition Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan intended to introduce the general public to the art trends of Contemporary Japan. The ‘double perspective’ is provided here by two curators from two [...]
2:46pm, 11 March 2011: children were at school in the hills high up above the coast; fishermen were at the beach; mothers were in their homes by the sea. On this seemingly ordinary day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, followed by a tsunami, hit north-east Japan, subsequently destroying several nuclear power plants and causing untold damage. The [...]
Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life February 25-May 20, 2012 Fluxus emerged in the early 1960s as a loose, international network of artists, composers, and designers-”led” by Lithuanian-born American artist George Maciunas (1931-1978)- that was noted for blurring the boundaries between art and life. Fluxus artists like Maciunas, Nam June Paik, George Brecht, and [...]
The City of Reykjavík has decided to light IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Ms. Yoko Ono’s birthday February 18th, 2012. The Mayor Mr. Jon Gnarr, says that on behalf of the City he wishes to thank Ms. Ono for her dedication to peace and friendship to Reykjavik: “Reykjavík is honored that Ms. Yoko Ono chose [...]
