Film Series: YOKO ONO March 29, 2011, 7:00 p.m. Adler Journalism Building, Room E105 The fourth screening of the UIMA’s six-part film series features four films by the Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist YOKO ONO who is known for her work in avant-garde art. Each of the six screenings pertains to a different [...]
by Craig Silver, The Culture Mulcher, Forbes One of the best features in American Heritage magazine, at one time owned by Forbes, was the recurring section titled “Overrated / Underrated.” Unabashedly subjective and ideologically unpredictable—it even punctured St. Reagan–it offered nuggets of controversy on every sort of subject. American Heritage no longer publishes the feature, [...]
To Be is to Be Perceived In conjunction with EXPOSED at the Tate Modern, To Be Is to Be Perceived explores the ways in which artists have used the camera to draw attention to a society mediated by permanent observation. It looks at how the camera has been used as a weapon, as a means [...]
still from Film No. 6, RAPE, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono EXPOSED: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 October 30, 2010 – April 17, 2011 Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, Exposed challenges us to consider how the camera has transformed the very nature [...]
by Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph, May 5, 2009 I was flicking through the news pages of one of the broadsheets last week when a photograph of a young woman caught my eye. It was in black and white, and seemed to have been taken some time in the 1960s. Slender, attractive, long flowing hair: she [...]
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 [...]
