APPLE by Yoko Ono
APPLE, PLEXIGLASS WITH BRASS PLAQUE, 36″ X 10″ X 10″ (92CM X 25CM X 25CM) 1966
“One of the ‘Unfinished Objects’ shown at Indica Gallery in 1966, ‘Apple’ embodies the life cycle of birth, decay, death and rebirth. Placing the apple on a pedestal in a gallery foregrounded the beauty of that [...]
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.”
GREEN SEEN Mail Art – The Wendell Free Library invites you to create an original postcard size art work for our mail art exhibit, GREEN SEEN.
GREEN – sustainability, conservation, freecycle, the color….. All techniques and media welcome.
Participants’ mail art works will be displayed until March 21st.
Participation is free. All are welcome, artists & non-artists.
Send original postcard size works to: GREEN SEEN Mail Art, Wendell Free Library, P.O. Box 236, Wendell, MA 01379 USA.
SPECIAL ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME ‘DRESS REHEARSAL’ PERFORMANCE – FEBRUARY 15TH @ 8PM
JUST ANNOUNCED: Confirmed to play ‘Dress Rehearsal” BAM show so far are: KLAUS VOORMANN & JIM KELTNER from the original Plastic Ono Band, JAKE SHEARS & ANA MATRONIC from Scissor Sisters, THURSTON MOORE & KIM GORDON from Sonic Youth, JUSTIN BOND and HARUOMI HOSONO.
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 VISIBLE VAGINA is an exhibition jointly organized by Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan.
A group show called “THE VISIBLE VAGINA”, featuring various artworks featuring vagina, currently being held ar Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, and David Nolan Gallery, New York, from January 28th to March 20th, 2010. In the Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, Yoko Ono’s work “My Mommy Is Beautiful” is being displayed.
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art: 24 West 57th Street, New York, New York, USA
David Nolan Gallery: 527 West 29th Street, New York, New York, USA
January 28, 2010 – March 20, 2010.
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 [...]
Changing Channels – Art and Television
1963-1987
‘Changing Channels’ is dedicated to the history of artists’ examinations of the mass medium of television.
Beginning with early television works from the 1960s, the exhibition is concerned with tracing the course of artistic reflection and use of this instrument of communication in the museum and public media spaces in more [...]
Soon You Can Hail an Artist as You Hail a Cab
By Carol Vogel, New York Times, 25 Dec 2009
Those moving advertisements atop taxis generally deliver not-so-subtle messages, like which airlines to fly or movies to see, who makes the sexiest blue jeans or the coolest sunglasses.
High art they most certainly are not.
But for the month [...]
YOKO ONO A HOLE
The artwork titled “A HOLE” is a plate of glass with a bullet hole pierced through by a gun shot.
There is an English text underneath the hole as follows: “A HOLE GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLASS AND SEE THROUGH THE HOLE.” The text allows viewers to move around voluntarily [...]
JEMA travels IMAGINE PIECE to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, in Gainesville, Florida
JEMA proudly announces Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE is reopened at JEMA and is currently on view at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, in Gainesville, Florida [map]. Yoko Ono’s exhibition runs from From October 6 – January 3rd, 2009-10, and [...]
Art Basel Miami Beach – an exclusive selection of more than 250 leading art galleries from USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by more than 2,000 artists. On show are exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Special sections will feature projects by emerging artists, new [...]
Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art
23 October -12 December 2009
University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA, USA [map]
Amnesty International, Laylah Ali, Maimuna Feroze-Nana, Mona Hatoum, Icelandic Love Corporation, Yoko Inoue, International Rescue Committee, Jung JungYeob, Amal Kenawy, Lisa Bjørne Linnert, Hung Liu, Gabriela [...]
Photo by Greg Kadel ©2009 Yoko Ono
Japanese Concerts – November 2009.
Wednesday, 18th November
Tokyo International Forum (Hall C)
OPEN 18:00 / START 19:00
Tickets: +81-3-5436-9600 (in Japan), DISK GARAGE co., LTD.
Ticket Price: 8,000yen, all seats are reserved.
Tuesday, 24th November
Osaka Geijyutsu Hall
Tickets: +81-6-7732-8888 (in Japan), KYODO OSAKA INC.
Ticket Price: 8,000yen, all seats are reserved.
Thursday 26th November
The Liquid Room, Tokyo
OPEN [...]
THE EXHIBITION
RCA Secret is an annual exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized art, made and donated by professional artists, designers and illustrators, plus up-and-coming students from the Royal College of Art. Last year’s exhibition of 2,700 works, included original contributions from Yoko Ono, Paula Rego, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Olafur Eliasson, David Bailey, fashion [...]
ARTWALK NY brings artists and art lovers together in an effort to help our homeless neighbors, while celebrating the most important artists of our time.
Benefiting Coalition for the Homeless
Honoring Pat Steir
Co-chairs: Richard Gere, Carey Lowell, Alec Baldwin.
Tuesday Nov 17, 2009
Cocktail Party, Live & Silent Art Auctions
Skylight Studio, 275 Hudson St, NYC
Full details here from [...]
My Sweet Friends!
I am so glad that Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Prizes are given to those in need. (I must have needed a lot this past July!) Obama needs all the encouragement he can get at this point. Let’s all send him the love and trust he could use as his energy [...]
THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME ANNEX NYC WILL OFFER FREE ADMISSION ON OCTOBER 9th AND 10TH IN HONOR OF JOHN LENNON’S BIRTHDAY
A SPECIAL GIFT TO FANS
NEW YORK, NY (October 7, 2009) – The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC will offer fans free admission on October 9th and 10th [...]
In honour of the lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on 9th October 2009, Yoko Ono offers the general public free ferry crossings to Viðey on 9th, 10th and 11th October and invites them to attend a memorial concert for John Lennon at Hafnarhús (The Harbor House at The Reykjavík Art Museum) on 9th October at 22:00.
Yoko [...]
This exhibition will gather important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. 100 Years will then travel to other venues, with content varying and developing over time. For each version, works can be added to or detracted from, or include a greater local emphasis, [...]
