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YOKO ONO – artist, musician, and activist will be celebrated during a free outdoor public celebration on July 21 featuring artists’ open studios. Arts icon and activist YOKO ONO is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Edward MacDowell Medal. Ono, whose ground-breaking and influential career as an artist began in the downtown New York scene [...]
'WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko' has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 2024 Oscars Ceremony. Congratulations to Sean, Dave, Brad and all the team and grateful thanks to The Academy for this great honour. Find out more at warisover.com.
Electroleague's film 'WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko' has been shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards.
Jón Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavík, nominated the artist YOKO ONO as Honorary Citizen of Reykjavík at a special ceremony at Höfdi House today. The City Council Executive Committee of Reykjavík agreed unanimously last week to make ONO an honorary citizen of Reykjavík, capital of Iceland. With this honorary title Reykjavík wants to thank Yoko for [...]
Yoko Ono will receive the Theodor Wanner Lifetime Achievement Award for her strong commitment to world peace and gender equality over her entire career. The prize will be awarded on October 17th in Berlin, Gemany. The award recalls the german manager and patron Theodor Wanner (1875-1955), on whose initiative the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations [...]
The most important event of the penultimate day of the Polish Transatlantyk Festival 2013 was the grand Closing Gala, held in the Concert Hall of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Jan AP Kaczmarek hosted the entire event with the openness and charm, so typical for him. The culmination of the evening was the presentation [...]
February 3, 2013: New York, NY, USA: Yoko Ono Lennon presents her "2013 Courage Awards for the Arts" to Julian Assange of Wikileaks in absentia. Accepting the award for Assange are Michael Ratner (2nd from left) and Balthasar Garzon Real (2nd from right). Daniel Ellsberg (left) and Foreign Minister of Ecuador Ricardo Patino Aroca [...]
On Thursday 1 March 2012, artist Yoko Ono won the 2012 Oscar Kokoschka prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art. The Oskar Kokoschka prize, named after an Austrian painter who died in 1980, is awarded every two years to a contemporary artist and is worth 20,000 euros (26,600 dollars). By awarding Yoko [...]
Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Awards for the Arts 2012 February 26, 2012, New York City at a private dinner at The Modern, MoMA, NYC. 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 [...]
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 [...]
"I had a fantastic time last night with Brian & Roger from Queen! Thanks, Brian Rasic, for the photo! love, yoko" BMI Icon Honorees Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen pose with Yoko Ono, wife of the late John Lennon who was honored with MillionAir Awards for “Woman” by John Lennon (4 million US radio airplays) and 5 other Beatles songs at the 2011 BMI London Awards held October 4 at the Dorchester Hotel in London. (Photo by Brian Rasic)
2011 World's Best Radio Programs Winners Congratulations to editor Chris O'Shaugnessy and Ten Alps Radio! Listen to the whole show here.
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The Cooper Union's Service to Sustainability Awards recognize people and organizations that share the Institute's commitment to enhancing public understanding of sustainable environments and green building design and construction, and work to promote the adaptation of sustainability on local and global levels. This year's recipients have provided outstanding leadership in the drive to protect New [...]
Woman Of The Year Awards 2010 Outstanding Contribution - Yoko Ono Woman Of The Year Awards 2010 Winners Radio Personality of the Year - Fearne Cotton UK TV Actress of the Year - Billie Piper Accessory Designer of the Year - Emma Hill Band of the Year - Florence + The Machine Entrepreneur of the [...]
by Rachel D. Vancelette, Italian Vogue Yoko Ono receives 2010 Distinguished Service To The Visual Arts Award From Art Table. Because she "continues to provoke the future" The 30th Anniversary honored Yoko Ono, avant-guard visionary and philanthropist for groundbreaking work in art, music and filmmaking, who has challenged all traditional boundaries in her long and [...]
"All Together Now," the documentary about the making of The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil's show "The Beatles: LOVE," won Best Long Form Music Video at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last night. The director Adrian Wills and the film's producers Martin Bolduc and Jonathan Clyde were at the event to collect the [...]
All three of us came together with a deep feeling of love and joy for Stella's accomplishment. Stella is family. I remember her from when she was a baby. Never thought that this baby would grow into such a magical person. Her creativity shows her free soul. And with that, she is giving a lot [...]
On Wednesday 23 September 2009, President Michelle Bachelet of Chile awarded the Bernardine Higgins Great Official Gold Order to the Japanese artist Yoko Ono. Footage here.