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 [...]
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. To order tickets click here [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 times Continuous film screenings: Tues to Sun, 12pm – 5pm. price tel fax email website reviews // Share|
location Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski address Aleje Ujazdowskie 6, Warszawa, Poland starts 2008-09-19 ends 2008-10-26 times price tel (+48 22) 628 12 71-3 and (+48 22) 628 76 83 fax (+48 22) 628 95 50 email csw@csw.art.pl website http://csw.art.pl/new/2007program/1112cale_en.html reviews YOKO ONO Fly Opening: 18.09.2008 at 7 pm [...]
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 [...]
1. Will I (Creamer & K remix) 2. Fly (Rob Rives mix) Mindtrain/Twisted Records TWD-50026-1 Order from: twistedamerica.stores.yahoo.net/onowillibwfly.html // Share|
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 Order from: twistedamerica.stores.yahoo.net/onowii5ep.html // Share|
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
