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 [...]
2009 Holiday Message From Yoko Ono:
Dear Friends
The WAR IS OVER! campaign was once a tiny seed, which spread and covered the Earth. John and I believed it helped many people to stop their wars. Since then, every WAR IS OVER! campaign has impacted the world as powerfully as the first one.
Start yours tomorrow, and you [...]
LUNAR GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY DESIGNATES “PEACE CRATER” TO HONOR JOHN LENNON
New York USA (9 October 2009 LT) — The International Lunar Geographic Society has announced that a crater on Luna, Earth’s Moon, has been renamed to honor musician and peace activist John Lennon.
The crater, which is located in the Moon’s Lacus Somniorum (“Lake of Dreams”) [...]
Yoko Ono: about IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
Tribute Events for 9 October 2009
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER lighting & Yoko RÁS2 radio interview
was STREAMED LIVE here on www.IMAGINEPEACE.com
from 8:30pm London / 7:30pm Reykjavík / 3:30pm NY / 12:30pm LA / 04:30am Tokyo
[streaming audio broadcast is now over]
NEW YORK, USA
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC
John Lennon [...]
In many ways, John Lennon was truly a renaissance man whose insights and perspective helped shape the sensibility of the temporary mind.
Born John Winston Lennon on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England, he died tragically on December 8, 1980. He married Yoko Ono at Gibraltar on March 20, 1969. On March 26, 1969 John and [...]
By Heidi Kurpleia, Creative Loafing, 25 March 2009
John Lennon would have kicked ass at Pictionary.
The Beatles’ founding genius was a voracious sketcher, and according to Yoko Ono he drew his best stuff when he was bummed out. He worked in rapid succession, using pen, pencil and Japanese sumi ink, drawing himself, his toddler son Sean, [...]
Forty years after their landmark peace initiative at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, John and Yoko are back, with a major exhibition of John Lennon’s art work on view at the Hilton Amsterdam from 20 – 22 March, 2009. The exhibition is being held under the umbrella of a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the [...]
