Yoko Ono: In Her Life / Shining On After 40 years of being unfairly accused of breaking up the Beatles and harshly mocked for her avant garde art and pop music, Yoko Ono is finally being recognised as a true pioneer. By Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph Soon after I sit down to talk with Yoko [...]
Currently Hanging by Jen Graves on The Slog at The Stranger on 8 July 2009 Yoko Ono’s 1961 artwork Painting to Hammer a Nail is a white painted wood panel with a hammer hanging from a chain attached to it, and a box of small nails sitting next to it. The title and the stray [...]
YOUR GOLD TEETH II Curated by Todd Levin June 19 – August 15, 2009 Opening reception June 18, 2009 6-8pm Jãnis Avotinš, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexandra Bircken, Alighiero E. Boetti, James Castle, Joseph Cornell, Thea Djordjadze, Leonardo Drew, Robert Elfgen, Roe Ethridge, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Melissa Gordon, Rodney Graham, Hannah Greely, Rashawn Griffin, Françoise Grossen, David [...]
HIGH CONCEPT by John Robinson, The Guardian, 23 April 2005. Described by her husband John Lennon as ‘the world’s most famous unknown artist’, Yoko Ono discusses her most creative moments with John Robinson The 1960s had already been fairly eventful for Yoko Ono. She’d published a book of “instructional poems”, and submerged herself in the [...]
After a touring retrospective and the reissue of eleven albums, it’s time to take Yoko Ono seriously While Yoko Ono is still regarded by many as the Beatles’ persona non grata, a quiet re-evaluation of her art and music has been underway for some time. A sort of subcultural logic has dictated that anyone [...]
