Yoko Ono began 2010 by participating in “Art Adds,” a project that exhibits her artwork on New York City taxicabs. Replacing advertisements that traditionally decorate the rooftops of taxis, Ono’s peace-promoting works (along with pieces by Alex Katz and Shirin Neshat) move throughout the city as a kind of public art. In Carol Vogel’s New York Times article about the project, Ono likens the experience to a dance, saying, “The message is always in motion.”
Friday QandA day: Ask me an interesting question, tag it #yokoQandA and I’ll answer 10-15 every week on IMAGINEPEACE.com love, yoko
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What was the last album you listened to from start to finish?
‘BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY’ by me and ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead’ by Sean Lennon!
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Do you have a phobia?
Life.
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Why did you tell [...]
Iain Macmillan Retrospective
Abbey Road, the Swinging 60’s, John & Yoko and Dundee
27th February until 3rd June 2010
Discovery Point Café Gallery, Discovery Quay, Dundee, DD1 4XA, Scotland.
FREE admission
Yoko says: “I am so glad that Iain is getting some recognition. He was a incredible photographer.”
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Yoko kicked off John Lennon’s 70th birthday celebration year at the 2010 NAMM Show.
Her appearance at the show inspired attendees to submit their wishes of hope and peace at a special Wish Tree set up in front of the Bus during the convention from January 14-17, 2010.
Hundreds of wishes were collected and will be installed [...]
The Ballad of John and Yoko
by John Lennon, from Skywriting by Word of Mouth
I’d always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheekboned, freespirited artist (a la Juliette Greco).
My soul mate.
Someone that I had already known, but somehow had lost.
After a short visit to India on my way home from Australia, [...]
“All Together Now,” the documentary about the making of The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil’s show “The Beatles: LOVE,” won Best Long Form Music Video at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last night.
The director Adrian Wills and the film’s producers Martin Bolduc and Jonathan Clyde were at the event to collect the award.
“All [...]
Thirty-two contemporary artists from 25 countries address violence against women and girls globally and their basic human rights to a safe and secure life. The beauty of this project is that it combines the highest integrity of art with important social messaging and storytelling to help create awareness, inspiration, and address systems for positive social change and action.
Exhibition curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg.
The O Ambassadors at Iles, in cooperation with Free the Children and Imagine Peace (Yoko Ono), are creating our Iles Me to We Wish Tree.
Each student traced their hand and wrote their wish for the world. This is a voluntary activity and every student participated! That really shows a commitment to leadership, caring and growth! In February, a team from Free the Children will visit Iles to present an all school assembly and workshops for older students. In April, we will celebrate our O Ambassador activities at our Seventh Annual Iles Writer’s Conference entitled, “Me to We”. Stay tuned for our continuing adventures!
Dear Friends
A BIG THANKYOU to over 200 remixers who took part in the THE SUN IS DOWN! remix competition.
The 20 prizewinning remixers are:
Bill Kates, Billy Martin, Damien Price, DJ Chernobyl, Jorge Artajo, King Louis & Mighty Jay, Konrad Behr, Mabarak, Madeon, Nick Vernier Band, Pedro Vainer, Posterboys, Rondo Brothers, Rumours of Whores, Ugh/Satanicpornocultshop, Shuji Nabara, [...]
In one of only three major USA performances scheduled for 2010:
YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND (& Deerhoof) LIVE at
The Fox Theater, 1807 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, California [map] (Noise Pop Festival)
Tuesday 23rd Feb 2010 at 8pm.
US $39.50
STILL A FEW TICKETS REMAINING
ON SALE HERE
YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND are YOKO ONO, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda and Cornelius: Keigo “Cornelius” [...]
9. YOKO ONO
She has borne herself with more integrity and dignity than all her critics combined. She has generated an incredible body of work — articulate, experimental, feminist, inspirational — as 1992’s massive Ono Box Set proves. She positively influenced John Lennon — possibly the most important popular music icon of late 20th century — encouraging him to lose his misogyny and become politically active. (She was also directly responsible for Lennon’s finest work, the primal scream therapy of Plastic Ono Band.) She has influenced generations of left-field musicians, from PiL to Sonic Youth to Huggy Bear. Ono is America’s most underrated artist.
A major earthquake has struck Haiti, just ten miles from the capital Port-au-Prince. Local officials are reporting a catastrophe of major proportions.
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Text “HAITI” to 90999 and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.
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“Out on the ocean, sailing away / I can hardly wait for you to come of age” (Beautiful Boy, John Lennon)
by Sean Lennon, Times Online
I don’t belong to that group of people who keep their childhoods neatly folded and tucked away, seldom seen, in a dresser drawer. My memories are scattered about the room like dust mites floating in sunlight. I’m unable to climb aboard even the tiniest steam train of thought without running over old origami animals in the Wild West of my youth.
by MitchdeFarla, AltSounds
Yoko Ono needs no introductions. She has been making music for 40+ years, is an artist, a political activist and most famously of all (for me anyway) she was the love of the late John Lennon’s life. Together the pair proved an unstoppable force both making music together and in particular for their [...]
Yoko Ono, Quincy Jones back kids at show
by Sarah Tully, The Orange County Register
When someone approaches Yoko Ono about a new project, she usually says she’ll think about it. Most of the time, that means no. But when she heard about the idea of a music education program in honor of her late husband, John [...]
Gestures – Performance and Sound Art
Opening: January 15th 2010 5pm – 8pm. Performance by Mathias Kryger at 6pm
Exhibition period: January 16th – June 6th, 2010
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Staendertorvet 3A, 4000 Roskildewww.samtidskunst.dk
Guided tours: during the exhibition period there will be guided tours every Sunday at 2 pm (in Danish). The tour is free, when [...]
WE ARE PLASTIC ONO BAND: LIVE! FEB 16, 2010 • 8PM
YOKO ONO with the incredible, once-in-a-lifetime line-up of Justin Bond, Eric Clapton, Cornelius, Kim Gordon, Yuka Honda, Haruomi Hosono, Jim Keltner, Sean Lennon, Bette Midler, Thurston Moore, Mark Ronson, Scissor Sisters, Harper Simon, Paul Simon, Klaus Voormann & Martha Wainwright.
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Photo by Greg Kadel ©2009 Yoko Ono
by Tony Bonyata, Concertlivewire.com, Jan. 6, 2010
She’s been referred to as a witch, a dragon lady and, perhaps most famously (and inaccurately, it should be noted), as the woman who single-handedly broke up The Beatles. While Yoko Ono first made her name in the early ’60s through her provocative [...]
By S. Pajot, Miami New Times
For a certain kind of pop culture observer, Yoko Ono will always remain defined by her marriage to John Lennon. And Lennon will always remain a Beatle.
These people, though, have misread history. They ignore (or are ignorant of) Ms. Ono’s pre- and post-Lennon work as a conceptual artist, occasional Fluxus [...]
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