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Helping The Peace Movement by Yoko Ono

On New Year’s Eve 2008, a MySpace friend wrote to me and asked “What can I do to help the Peace Movement?” This was my reply: Dear Jake This is an age where one hero cannot conquer Evil. Evil is a dis-ease presented to us as our fate. Many times, it is presented to us as an illusion of goodness, so we get confused, don’t free ourselves from it and be destroyed by it. To conquer evil, each one of us must first clearly see what it is… that it is a curable dis-ease. Then work to release us from it’s power in a way we can. Luckily, there are so many of us in the world, it is enough for all of us to do what we can do with joy, and not feel depressed that we are not doing enough. We should first IMAGINE PEACE,... [More here →]

IMAGINE PEACE

Happy Xmas WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)

WAR IS OVER!: Watch the film. Between 6 Jan - 2 Feb 2009, look out for the IMAGINE PEACE / WAR IS OVER! billboards  in Times Square, New York (W46th St & Broadway - to the left of Virgin Records)  and Washington DC (901 6th St & K St NW at the Hampton Inn).   To my friends: I’d like... [More here →]

IMAGINE PEACE billboard in Canton, Ohio

Out of the blue and without any announcement, Yoko Ono’s “IMAGINE PEACE” billboard appeared in the city of Canton, Ohio, around the beginning of December 2008.  I heard this news from Dr. Kevin Concannon who is the curator of Yoko Ono’s recent show, “Yoko Ono: IMAGINE... [More here →]

9 Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year

by Deepak Chopra, Tikkun, 1 Jan 2009. The following is a memo to Barack Obama from Deepak Chopra:   PEACE You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected after promising to end the Korean War. But ending a war isn’t the same as bringing... [More here →]

Wish Tree by Marcela Trejo

I chose to do Yoko Ono’s Wish Piece for a project in my Curatorial Directions class at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada).  We were to choose an instructional work by any of the artists featured in the Hans Ulrich Obrist “Do It” textbook. This textbook is about... [More here →]

Yoko Ono Lennon - New Year’s Eve Message 2008/2009

The above image is from the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER Earthcam on Dec 31, 2008 8:21 PM   Yoko Ono Lennon - New Year’s Eve Message 2008/2009 ON ENTERING THE AGE OF JOY This last day of the year 2008 All of us can come together at www.IMAGINEPEACE.com  To enjoy spectacular images from the IMAGINE... [More here →]

Yoko recommends

Chimera Music Release No. 0

Released on 21 January 2009 Available via Amazon Japan 01. The GOASTT : The World Was Made For Men 02. Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band : Ask The Elephant!
 03. If By Yes
: You Feel Right 04. The GOASTT
: Rainbow In Gasoline 05. If By Yes: You’re Something Else 
06. Sean Lennon: Hamlet’s... [More here →]

Kung Fu Panda

Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po works in his family’s noodle shop while daydreaming about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the world of Kung Fu and study alongside his idols-the legendary fighters Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper... [More here →]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1985)

Warrior/pacifist princess nausicaa desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. This film is anti-prejudice, anti-cruety, and anti-war, without being preachy at all. A very good film for children. Enjoyable for adults, as well. One of my DVD... [More here →]

Princess Mononoke

An exquisitely animated, overwhelmingly acclaimed adventure epic. Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. Once there, he becomes inextricably entangled in a bitter battle that matches Lady Eboshi... [More here →]

New York Times: 22 December 2008, p29

IMAGINE PEACE love, yoko you can download full-size versions to print out here: A3 size | A4 size. Rate this: 3.2 [More here →]

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Imagine Peace Tower Stamp - Bronze award

From StampNews.com Top 10 extraordinary stamps of the year 2008 We at StampNews.com want to strike the balance of the passing year. Plenty of new stamps have seen the light all over the world. No question all of them are different and it is very difficult to compare them. Still some stamps stand out... [More here →]

Group Show: Love Cures [Miami, Florida]

MIAMI BEACH, FL.- ArtCenter/South Florida (“ACSF”) proudly partners with curator and artist Carolina Salazar to present Love Cures, a contemporary charity art auction exhibition benefiting the advancement of neuroblastoma research. Fifty emerging and established artists including Yoko Ono, William... [More here →]

Yoko Ono: Between The Sky and My Head [Gateshead, UK]

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... [More here →]

Yoko Ono: Plastic ONO Band LIVE [Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan]

Chimera Music presents:     The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger: Sean Lennon & Charlotte Muhl If By Yes: Yuka Honda, Petra Haden, Yuko Araki & Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu Kemp & Eden: Charlotte Muhl & Eden Rice Yoko Ono Plastic ONO Band    21 January 2009 Liquid Room 3-16-6... [More here →]

Group Show: Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978 [Seattle, WA, USA]

June 25–September 13, 2009 Seattle Art Museum Target Practice is an international, historical survey of the attacks that painting endured in the years following World War II. For the artists in the show, painting had become a trap, and they devised numerous ways to escape the conventions and break... [More here →]

Words

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER book

The Iceland Post Company recently published a book on Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in cooperation with the artist. The tower was erected on Reykjavík’s Viðey island on October 9, 2007, in the memory of her late husband John Lennon. The 100-page book, simply entitled IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, contains... [More here →]

2008: That was the Beatle year that was: Yoko Ono’s art projects

Yoko Ono at the opening of her exhibit in Shangai. (AP Photo) by Steve Marinucci, Beatles Examiner, December 21, 7:33 AM (If you were a Beatle fan, you have to admit 2008 was a strange year in regard to news from the Beatles. There was great news and there was weird news. This is one of a series of... [More here →]

Yoko Ono by Miranda Sawyer, The Observer Review

John Lennon was shot 28 years ago this month, but his widow, now 75, travels the world preaching peace and love in his name - and in her art. Here she tells Miranda Sawyer about begging for food as a child in wartime Japan, her two husbands before John, and the daughter who was hidden from her for... [More here →]

8 December 2008 - Memories of John

John Lennon 9 Oct 1940 - 8 Dec 1980    Photo by Allan Tannenbaum, 26 Nov 1980   Please share your memories of John in the comments. WAR IS OVER! Click anywhere on the picture above to watch the film. Download the poster from here. Print & display in your window, school, workplace, car &... [More here →]

Yoko Ono: Q&A for The Sunday Times

by Hanna Hanra for The Sunday Times Born in Toyko in 1933, Yoko Ono is a film-maker, conceptual artist, musician and peace campaigner. In 1969, she married John Lennon, with whom she held bed-ins for world peace and recorded the single Give Peace a Chance. Her latest exhibition, Between the... [More here →]

Events & Exhibitions News

Group Show: Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art [Oslo, Sweden]

  The Stenersen Museum Stenersenmuseet, Munkedamsveien 15, N-0125 Oslo,Norway The main entrance is from the Concert Hall terrace Phone +47 23 49 36 00 Fax +47 23 49 36 10 Email: postmottak.stenersen@stenersen.museum.no Post:  PO Box 1965 Vika, N-0125 Oslo, Norway Website: http://www.stenersen.museum.no/en/index.htm 20... [More here →]

Group Show: Voids (Empty Spaces) [Paris, France]

  A quite exceptional event, “Vides” (vacuums) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles in a totally original manner exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing, leaving empty the space... [More here →]

Group Show: 13th International Art Fair: ART MOSCOW [Moscow, Russia]

13 International Art Fair ART MOSCOW  Venue: Central House of Artists Russian Federation, 119049, Moscow, ул. Крымский Вал, 10/14 [map] Showdate:  Wed 13 - Sun 17 May 2009 Opening Hours: Tue 12 May - Preview  Wed 13 May 2.00 p.m.  - Press-conference Wed 13 May 4.00 - 8.00 p.m. Thu... [More here →]

Group Show: Postcards From The Edge [New York, USA]

Postcards From the Edge Benefit for Visual AIDS A Unique Art Collectors Event NEW YORK, December 2008 — Every year, Visual AIDS, New York’s premiere non-profit organization working between art and AIDS hosts its largest fundraiser, Postcards From the Edge.  Known within the art scene as the... [More here →]

Group show: re.act.feminism: [Berlin, Germany]

Akademie der Künste, Berlin re.act.feminism  performance art of the 1960s and 70s today Exhibition—Video archive— Live Performances—Conference A project by cross links e.V. Curated by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer Exhibition: 13 December 2008 - 8 February 2009 Opening: 12 December... [More here →]

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER

Yoko Ono: Wish Tree for Tokyo [Tokyo, Japan]

YOKO ONO: Wish Tree for Tokyo 9 December 2008 Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Tokyo has been planted in the museum’s sculpture garden. It was first on view at the exhibition YES Yoko Ono (Spring 2004 at MOT). The work has been donated by the artist to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo... [More here →]

Yoko Ono: Wish Trees for Gateshead [Gateshead, UK]

As part of Enchanted Parks in Saltwell Park, Gateshead, (4-14 December 2008) Yoko Ono will present Wish Trees for Gateshead – where visitors are invited to express their hopes and dreams by writing wishes on paper and hanging them on one of the trees. Wishes from Wish Trees for Gateshead will be gathered... [More here →]

Open Art Workshop on Videy Island

Reykjavík Art Museum is organizing an open art workshop in a cozy atmosphere for both children and adults today, Nov 30th, between 2 pm and 5 pm at Videyjarstofa museum and restaurant on Videy island, five minutes away from the capital by boat. The workshop’s theme will be Yoko Ono’s peace column,... [More here →]

Wish Trees for Pasadena - a report by Mikihiko Hori

Snow in California by Mikihiko Hori Yoko Ono’s participatory art project, “Wish Tree for Pasadena” at the central courtyard of One Colorado in Pasadena, California, which started on August 2nd, ‘08, has just ended its display on November 9th, ‘08. For “Wish Tree for... [More here →]

YOKO ONO: WISH TREES FOR PASADENA - Articles

Wish Trees for Pasadena Move to their New Home Today Today the crepe myrtles that were part of the Wish Tree for Pasadena installation at One Colorado will be planted at their new, permanent home at Arlington Garden. Dedication is 10:00 A.M. …The trees are being dedicated as a permanent... [More here →]