For the first time ever, the immortal lyrics of John Lennon’s 'Imagine' have been transformed into a children’s picture book illustrated by award-winning artist Jean Jullien. Created for Amnesty, 'Imagine' follows one little pigeon on a journey to spread peace around the world, to every bird no matter what their shape or size. [...]
YOKO ONO Reissue Project - Part 2 3 Albums: FLY, Approximately Infinite Universe & Feeling The Space Out on July 14th, available for preorder NOW CD Bundle • Available from Secretly Canadian & Chimera Music. • AIU embroidered patch • "What A Bastard The World Is" instant download • Digital download code [...]
Julie Cunningham & Company: A Line Is Yoko Ono’s ‘Dance Pieces’ from her seminal collection of ‘Instruction Poems’ ACORN, are the starting point for a new site-specific dance performance by Julie Cunningham & Company. The work responds to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s galleries and collections on display. Taking visitors [...]
Proudest day of my life: The National Music Publishers Association just gave the centennial (song of the century) award to Imagine, but WAIT! Surprise! They played an audio interview of my father saying (approximately) 'Imagine should've been credited as a Lennon/Ono song, if it had been anyone other than my wife I would've [...]
"Wake Up!" - Yoko Ono on new Moonlandingz album The Moonlandingz announce new album 'Interplanetary Class Classics' Produced by Sean Lennon, it features Yoko Ono on the track 'This Cities Undone' The band features members of Fat White Family and the Eccentronic Research Council. "The Moonlandingz are one of the most important [...]
ONO - Hell In Paradise 2016 - 2 x Digital Maxi Singles with Dance Remixes by Dave Audé, Alyson Calagna, DJ Kue and more...
Secretly Canadian is honored to partner with Chimera Music on releasing Yoko Ono’s musical output from 1968 to 1985. Comprised of eleven studio albums, the reissue project’s focus is to painstakingly reconstruct the original vinyl packaging, to thoroughly excavate and appropriately curate the treasure-laden archives of never-before-seen photos and ephemera, and to re-master the audio, all for [...]
The recipients of Yoko Ono's 2016 Lennon-Ono Grant For Peace will be Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Katalin Ladik & Ai Weiwei. The ceremony takes place Oct 9th in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Yoko Ono - IMAGINE PEACE FOREVER Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, Texas On view through August 22, 2016 In response to the tragedy that took place in downtown Dallas on July 7, 2016, Yoko Ono has mounted a message of positivity at the Dallas Museum of Art. IMAGINE PEACE FOREVER, an original work of art [...]
PEBBLE PEOPLE For International Women's Day, 8 March 2016 A butterfly is hopping from flower to flower. Oh, good, I think. The butterfly is busy-bodying as usual. We are like butterflies. We busybody ourselves every day for our survival as we think we know how. But the difference with us, is that we know we [...]
Original article in French: Madame Figaro YOKO OH YES! The Museum Of Contemporary Art in Lyon is celebrating this amazing lady of conceptual art with a huge exhibition. Yoko Ono is also releasing a new album where we see her collaborate with her son, Sean Lennon, as well as Moby. For 'Madame Figaro', Yoko Ono [...]
Yoko Ono Lennon is very pleased to announce this year’s Courage Awards for the Arts, which will take place on May 8th at a private ceremony in New York City. This year’s recipients are: Laurie Anderson and former Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed el Gharani for their collaborative work HAEBUS CORPUS, performed last October at the Park [...]
DAVID BOWIE John and David respected each other. They were well matched in intellect and talent. As John and I had very few friends we felt David was as close as family. After John died, David was always there for Sean and me. When Sean was at boarding school in Switzerland, David would pick him [...]
Galerie Lelong: December 11, 2015 - January 29, 2016 Andrea Rosen Gallery: December 11, 2015 – January 23, 2016 Opening reception: Friday, December 11, 6-8pm “The River Bed is the river bed that is the in-between life and death... Stone will help you let go all poisonous thoughts from your mind and body Line will [...]
John Malkovich Talks About His All-Star Remix Album "As Charlie Kaufman said in his script 'Being John Malkovich', in one sentence he was 'the Schopenhauer of the 20th century' and in the next sentence he was an 'overrated sack of shit.' I know at least one of those is true." by Evan Minsker, Pitchfork Photos [...]
MANIMAL GROUP is excited to announce the sequel to YOKO ONO'S critically acclaimed 2007 collaboration record Yes, I'm A Witch (Astralwerks). Yes, I'm A Witch Too is slated for an early 2016 release (around Yoko's 83rd birthday on 18th February) and features new collaborations and remixes pairing ONO with Death Cab For Cutie, Peter, Bjorn [...]
UNCOVER II - To My Soul Mates in Cambridge by Yoko Ono, Oct. 15th, 2015 Last night, I went to a restaurant after 11 p.m., hoping that I could get coffee and a biscuit. Instead I saw a vast crowd of men, all in grey, as if their suits were the only things that were [...]
DON’T LET YOUR EYES DRY! by Yoko Ono Dear Humus Bar What you are doing now is so beautiful, my eyes were filled with tears and I had difficulty reading the report to the end. But I kept wiping my tears and read the whole report since it was so important for me to read [...]
The 9th IMAGINE PEACE TOWER by Yoko Ono, Oct 9th 2015 We have lit the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER every year, now, for 9 years straight. I did not miss one year. In the beginning, I felt like it was vaguely a duty for me to come to promote World Peace. But I realized quickly that [...]
On October 6th, YOKO ONO LENNON and The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus will celebrate the 75th Anniversary of JOHN LENNON’s birth (born 10/9/40) with a Guinness World RecordsⓇ attempt for the WORLD'S LARGEST HUMAN PEACE SIGN. Pre-registration is encouraged and open to the public for this free, family friendly event at http://imaginepeace.eventbrite.com. “New York [...]