John Lennon once described his wife as the "world's most famous unknown artist. Everybody knows her name but no one knows what she actually does." Well this is no longer the case. Last week Yoko Ono received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Venice for her art and this week she has been nominated for another [...]
The 'emotional sound' of Yoko Ono Yoko Ono has been nominated for a lifetime achievement award by the music magazine Mojo. Reporter Nicola Stanbridge went to meet Yoko - along with her son Sean Lennon - to discuss if this means that the world is finally ready to accept her as a talented musician in [...]
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THE BED-INS: AMSTERDAM AND MONTREAL by Anthony Fawcett "The actual peace event we staged came directly from Yoko. She had decided that whatever action she took, she took for a specific reason. Her reason was peace. I'd been singing about love, which I guess was another word for peace. Our actual peace demonstrations were Yoko-style [...]
by Dayna Harpster, News-Press.com, Fort Myers, Florida. More than a few 74-year-olds have earned the right to a conversational upper hand. And when it's Yoko Ono, perhaps the most famous widow in the world, she has you at "hello." On the phone from New York, Ono was being interviewed because an exhibit of drawings by [...]
by Justin Richards, New York Press. Yoko Ono's art has always been propagandist. Take songs like "Give Peace a Chance," or performance pieces like the reassemblage of shattered ceramics, or the Imagine Peace Tower near Reykjavik, Iceland. Her clear and simple messages haven't changed much since the 1960s. Ono's continued calls for peace and unity [...]
Interview by Rebecca Willa Davis, Nylon THE INSIDER: YOKO ONO The music icon wants you to give peace a chance - and start a dance revolution. There are icons, and then there’s Yoko Ono. More than 40 years since she cut up her clothing in front of an audience and staged bedroom peace-ins, the artist [...]
This article originally appeared on Cara Kulwicki's blog, The Curvature, a feminist perspective on politics and culture. Introduction: Oh Yoko! For J. I think you would have loved these five posts perhaps more than anyone. I wish you could have read them. I’ve mentioned in passing before that I had intentions to write a feminist [...]
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 items we're writing as a 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 [...]
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 Sky and My Head, featuring [...]
Last week Japanorama’s Alfie Goodrich received a call from the BBC, to shoot some stills for a story they were doing about Yoko Ono’s annual ‘Dream Power’ fund-raising concert. The job took Alfie on a trip down Beatles memory-lane, from a Beatles tribute band in Roppongi, via Yoko’s hotel room to the John Lennon Museum in [...]
In the late 1960s when controversy swirled around them like a cyclone, John Lennon said of his wife Yoko Ono, "Everyone knows who she is, but nobody knows what she does". Since his murder 28 years ago this month, it has become clear what Ono does: she is the keeper of his flame; the one [...]
Japan keeps Lennon's memory alive By Duncan Bartlett, BBC News, Tokyo John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is marking the 28th anniversary of the musician's death by playing a special memorial concert in Tokyo. Japan is one country where John Lennon's memory is kept very much alive. Beatlemania has never really died. Every night in Tokyo, bands [...]
Blueprint For A Reprise by LYDIA FONG An Interview with Yoko Ono *** Many of us remember the scene: Yoko Ono, in a white sleeping gown, unmistakable long black hair framing her face, sitting in bed next to John Lennon in a hotel room packed with reporters, celebrities and activists. Tape recorder on and guitar in [...]
After years of walking red carpets, appearing in photo shoots or before millions of people on screen or on stage -- all the while fortunate enough to enlist the services of the world's premier stylists -- celebrities know clothing like few outside the fashion industry. So give us just five minutes with any fabulous celeb, [...]
When Yoko Ono started showing John Lennon's artwork in the '80s, she was derided as an opportunist and worse. Two decades later she is seen as a keeper of the Lennon legacy, with fans softening on the woman who "broke up the Beatles" as more of the band's history comes to light. The latest exhibit [...]
Yoko Ono discusses the artistic life of John Lennon and his evolution as an icon I always knew I was going to make it, but I wasn’t sure in what manifestation,” said John Lennon in a 1980 Playboy interview. “I used to read the reviews of books and art and music before I ever put [...]
Yoko Ono loves you. But that’s only one of the messages that the avant-garde artist, who became a household name during her romance with Beatle John Lennon, is sending through her latest interactive work, “Wish Tree for Pasadena,” on display through Nov. 9 among the tables and chairs in the One Colorado courtyard. Ono’s “Wish [...]
KRON 4 Morning News has a candid conversation with Yoko Ono about her solo exhibition at SF MoMA. Reporter: Vicki Liviakis. Producer: Lily Tung.