Yoko Ono is one of the most polarizing figures in rock ‘n’ roll history. The people that love her LOVE her and the people who don’t love her never will. Aside from being married to John Lennon, she also created the blueprint for avant-punk and electronic music, and remixes of her songs have been regularly charting in the top ten of Billboard’s dance music chart for the last decade. Ono has an amazing new CD, Between My Head and the Sky, that continues her artistic progression and has to be the greatest rock record ever recorded by a 76-year-old.
by Guy Blackman, Sydney Morning Herald & Brisbane Times
There is a story about John Lennon hearing the B-52s’ 1978 song Rock Lobster at a disco in the Bahamas. Struck by the vocal similarities to his wife Yoko Ono’s music, he was inspired to go back into the studio for the first time since 1974, [...]
The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things is an exhibition of artists’ collections. It explores how the collection can both be used as a resource as well as being art in its own right.
Artists represented include Neil Chapman, Jo Mitchell, Ruth Maclennan, Gail Pickering and the curator, Monika Oechsler. The exhibition also presents [...]
Yoko Ono: Fly, 2007
50 fly figures and 50 cards in black box with drawer; metal, plastic, paper, wood
6″ x 6″ x 8″
courtesy of the artist
cards inscribed “I found this fly and thought of you” in English and Japanese.
edition 75/81 (AP:7, PP:2)
estimate: $3,300
More here.
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Benefit Committee
Edward Albee | Eleanor Alper | Dianne Benson [...]
No matter what you do, you’re always hearing something. –George Brecht
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce White Noise, a group exhibition featuring works that exist at the intersection of visual art, music and sound by artists of different generations. In the exhibition, there will be sounds to be looked at and objects to be heard. [...]
Major Yoko Ono Retrospective at Baltic
by Brenda Burrell, The Photography Pages
A big show like this hardly needs introduction and there’s room to be
wary of promoting celebs, but do go and see this, do go. Much of her
work brings forth unquantified emotion, some undoubtedly sentimental,
but other pieces simply bring an unexpected rawness to the surface.
This gallery was full [...]
Yoko Ono: FLY
from eflux.com
Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts
Yoko Ono-Fly
Nov 23 – Dec 15, 2008
Exhibition Opening:
November 22, 2008, 19:00
Kai Xuan Road 613-B,
Shanghai, 200051 China
http://www.kecenter.org
Exhibition Concept and Curator: Yoko Ono
Organized by Gunnar Kvaran and Biljana Ciric
Presented by Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts
Partner: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Special Thanks to Intrude 366 Art [...]
SHANGHAI 11.26.08
Left: Gunnar B. Kvaran, director of the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Yoko Ono, and Biljana Ciric, curator of the Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts. Right: The crowd outside the museum. (All photos: Mathieu Borysevicz)
IN RECENT MONTHS, beginning with the ShContemporary fair and the Shanghai Biennial in September, a veritable swarm of international art cognoscenti has [...]
Yoko Ono’s art proves a bigger draw than expected in Bielefeld
A retrospective exhibition of Yoko Ono’s art work in Bielefeld has smashed organisers’ expectations and attracted more than 25,000 visitors in two and a half months.
The show, entitled ‘Between the Sky and My Head,’ has been open at the North Rhine-Westphalia town’s Kunsthalle since the end of August, and [...]
From: ScenaWarszawa
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from Artdaily.org
WARSAW.- For the past fifty years Yoko Ono has been a leading experimental and avant-garde artist – one of very few women – in an international context. In the course of time she has been associated with Conceptual Art, performances, Fluxus and happenings, but above all she has been an independent artist, a pioneer, [...]
location
Vault Gallery, Armory Center for the Arts
address
145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, USA
starts
2008-09-21
ends
2008-11-09
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Continuous film screenings: Tues to Sun, 12pm – 5pm.
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Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski
address
Aleje Ujazdowskie 6, Warszawa, Poland
starts
2008-09-19
ends
2008-10-26
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(+48 22) 628 12 71-3 and (+48 22) 628 76 83
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(+48 22) 628 95 50
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csw@csw.art.pl
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http://csw.art.pl/new/2007program/1112cale_en.html
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YOKO ONO
Fly
Opening: 18.09.2008 at 7 pm (only with invitation)
On view through 11.11
CCA Ujazdowski Castle and public space in Warsaw
Author of the exhibition’s concept and curator:
Yoko Ono
Coordination: Gunnar B. Kvaran – director of the Astrup Fearnley Museum [...]
ONO: ‘Give Peace A Chance’ (The 2008 Remixes) are a group of digital releases from Mindtrain/Twisted Records available at Beatport.com & iTunes Music Store from 1 June 2008, the 39th anniversary of the historic original recording.
Following the massive critical and commercial success of Yoko Ono’s ambitious remix collections – Yes, I’m A Witch and Open Your Box (Mindtrain/Astralwerks) which paired the [...]
1. Will I (Creamer & K remix)
2. Fly (Rob Rives mix)
Mindtrain/Twisted Records
TWD-50026-1
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twistedamerica.stores.yahoo.net/onowillibwfly.html
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1. Will I (Creamer & K remix)
2. Fly (Rob Rives mix)
3. Will I (Creamer & K Ambient mix)
4. O’Oh (Nuspirit Helsinki remix)
5. Death of Samantha (Porcupine Tree remix)
Mindtrain/Twisted Records
TWD-50026-2
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twistedamerica.stores.yahoo.net/onowii5ep.html
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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 New York avant [...]
Since the early 1960s, initially as an important if orbital member of the Fluxus movement, Yoko Ono has been making subtle and challenging works of art across a range of media. After meeting John Lennon in 1966 she was placed in a position of global celebrity that no member of the avant-garde had ever experienced [...]
MB: What was your earliest experience of making music?
YO: My father, who wanted me to be a pianist, made me start practising when I was two and a half years old. At the age of four or thereabouts I was sent to Jiyu-Gakuen, where they gave you a formal music training. Up till then, I [...]
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 who’s been [...]
