The City of Reykjavík has decided to light IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Ms. Yoko Ono’s birthday February 18th, 2012. The Mayor Mr. Jon Gnarr, says that on behalf of the City he wishes to thank Ms. Ono for her dedication to peace and friendship to Reykjavik: “Reykjavík is honored that Ms. Yoko Ono chose [...]
To Preserve Our Rights, We Must Stand Up For Them. by Josh Fox This morning, the charge of “unlawful entry” brought against me was dismissed without condition. The US Attorney dropped the case, finding it baseless and without merit. Although this is a personal victory and I am very grateful and relieved at the US [...]
On March 31 at 8:30 pm local time, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for Earth Hour, the world’s largest collective display of commitment to protect the planet. Will you join us? By turning off your lights for just 60 minutes on March 31 you can take a positive action [...]
Recorded on 1 June 1969, in Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, after the recording of ‘Give Peace A Chance’. REMEMBER LOVE Remember love, remember love, Love is what it takes to sing. Remember love, remember love, Love is what it takes to meet. Remember love, remember love, Love is what it [...]
Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Awards for the Arts To be held February 26, 2012, New York City at a private dinner Four years ago, at the height of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the press filled with tales of heroic displays of great courage in the face of adversity, I began to think [...]
Warm greetings from sunny South Beach! On November 5, 2011, The Betsy-South Beach dedicated a Wish Tree to the City of Miami Beach and, since then, we have collected more than 2000 wishes. The tree is located Lummus Park, with full access by the public and a steady stream of international visitors and Miami residents. [...]
Dear Yoko, I just wanted to send you a few photos of an industrial sized scuplture that my friend Rob Bucholz installed for a large (aprox. 250,000 attendees) youth oriented music festival in Las Vegas last summer. My now wife and I assisted in the installation and collaborated with him and turned his 3 40-50 [...]
Artists who attained fame and glory in the culturally revolutionary decades of 60s and 70s still making waves later in life by Alex Needham, The Guardian Next Saturday Yoko Ono turns 79. In June she will come to London to launch a retrospective of her work at the Serpentine, which will include work she’s making right now. “My [...]
FLUXFEST CHICAGO 2012 February 9th – 12th, 2012 Feb 9th 5:00pm – 7:30pm FROM THE ARCHIVE Mailart and Fluxus from the archives of Fluxus/St. Louis. Opening reception Chicago Art Institute, Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection. 37 S. Wabash, 5th Floor. Feb 10th 2:00pm – 5pm FLUX IT YOURSELF Scores and Performances by Contemporary Fluxus. Publication [...]
An exhibition of works by John Cage including prints, drawings, multiples, and scores. With Friends includes works by William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Graves, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Tom Marioni, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, [...]
At Dawn – Yoko Ono interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist For the eighth time the “Digital-Life-Design” Conference takes place from January 22nd until January 24th in Munich. The name says it all as the dialogue about art and design is strongly connected with an interdisciplinary exchange. With this aspiration in mind DLD presents a series [...]
Yoko Ono: Our Beautiful Daughters January 13 – March 10, 2012 Vadehra Art Gallery, D-178, Okhla Phase 1, New Delhi 110020, India. A parallel exhibition, The Seeds, exhibiting Ono’s earlier work, will run at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi 11024, India. Performance: Yoko Ono: To India With Love - 15 January 2012 Stein Auditorium, [...]
Let’s sing, dance and hug each other to bring in a new year and with it, a new world. Yoko Ono 1 January 2011 YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND played at The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freak Out #5, two shows December 31 and January 1 at Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center in Oklahoma [...]
National Candlelit vigil, January 8, 2012 Yoko Ono joins Too Many Victims Campaign The Brady Campaign announces today that Yoko Ono Lennon has joined the Too Many Victims Campaign and has issued a simple message of peace to all standing up to light a candle on Sunday, the first anniversary of the tragic mass shooting [...]
Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park
Make a wish.
Ask the tree to send your wishes
to all the trees in the world.
For Truth, Justice and Peace.
y.o. ’11
“At/around/beyond: Fluxus at Rutgers University” September 24, 2011 – April 01, 2012 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Eisenberg Gallery 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick. Information: Exhibition & Travel. Tel: (732) 932-7237. Facebook Fluxus celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2012. A radical, experimental, and multimedia art movement of the mid-twentieth century that continues to influence [...]
The Flaming Lips have released the final of their (almost) monthly 2011 releases at the New Year Freakout, a collaborative EP with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. Each of the Limited Edition (2000 only) psychedelic, multi-color, glow-in-the-dark 12″ vinyl records is a one-of-kind piece of art. Let’s sing, dance and hug each other to bring [...]
By Amy McGrath, Reverb Yoko Ono has been a hero in my life since my early teenage years. She is a woman on the vanguard in so many ways — her avant-garde music has always been years ahead of its time, her conceptual art is full of quirky humor and simple beauty, and she has [...]
Message from Yoko Ono: To the Mayor & City of Oklahoma I am so thrilled & honoured that today, 31st Dec has been proclaimed “Yoko-lahoma City Day” and I look forward to us all celebrating the New Year together at the Bricktown Events Center tonight & tomorrow night with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, The [...]
