Seventy-six painters, sculptors, photographers, glass and conceptual artists from Ireland to Argentina, Korea to the United States, have come together in an inspiring book to answer a call by Dr. Seuss (in his 1971 classic, The Lorax) to: “Speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” The artists in this powerful new book, [...]
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 [...]
It began just down the street from the Dakota, in Billie Holiday’s old music studio, which was then home to Theatre Within, an experimental theater workshop. A small group of performing artists and their friends were drawn together by John Lennon's senseless murder. An emotional evening of song, dance and theater, that first gathering was [...]
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon partner with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music publishing to donate net proceeds from Plastic Ono Band’s “Give Peace A Chance” 40th anniversary digital single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. Commemorative Digital Single Launches Today, Exclusively on iTunes, here. New York, NY – November 3, 2009 – To [...]
by Susan Kraemer, Clean Technica Every barrel of oil extracted in the US also produces ten barrels of hot fluids in addition to the oil. Why not use that potential energy in the waste heat? Rather than discard that “geothermal” resource created by the process of oil extraction, the DOE is going to show the [...]
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.
LUNAR GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY DESIGNATES “PEACE CRATER” TO HONOR JOHN LENNON New York USA (9 October 2009 LT) — The International Lunar Geographic Society has announced that a crater on Luna, Earth’s Moon, has been renamed to honor musician and peace activist John Lennon. The crater, which is located in the Moon’s Lacus Somniorum (“Lake of [...]
THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME ANNEX NYC WILL OFFER FREE ADMISSION ON OCTOBER 9th AND 10TH IN HONOR OF JOHN LENNON’S BIRTHDAY A SPECIAL GIFT TO FANS NEW YORK, NY (October 7, 2009) – The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC will offer fans free admission on October 9th and 10th [...]
With his enormous talent, Michael kept giving us power, inspiration and joy. Yet he knew that the world was not kind to him for many reasons, some of it going right back to racism. That must have been so hard for him. His various attempts to be loved by the world equaled the pain he [...]
Video - Liverpool Cathedral Bells play Lennon’s Imagine By Ian Jackson, Art in Liverpool.com, 16 May 2009 Actually being there in front of the great cathedral with a crowd of people listening intently was quite an experience. It sounded quite melancholic and moving but it maybe doesn’t translate well onto this bit of video. The [...]
NOT FADE AWAY GALLERY ANNOUNCES AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION Bidding Now Open for Rare Artist’s Proofs and Limited Edition Photographs on Auction Closing July 9th Not Fade Away Gallery and Allan Tannenbaum, Famed SoHo Weekly News Photographer, announced today that the Gallery is holding a silent auction of over 70 [...]
by Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph, May 5, 2009 I was flicking through the news pages of one of the broadsheets last week when a photograph of a young woman caught my eye. It was in black and white, and seemed to have been taken some time in the 1960s. Slender, attractive, long flowing hair: she [...]
By Chris Bond, Yorkshire Post, 25 March 2009 By the mid-1960s, revolution was in the air and nowhere was this more evident than in art. A decade after Jackson Pollock's paint extravaganzas had confounded critics, pop art pioneers like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were turning the art world on its head. Amid this cultural [...]
Dear Friends, Join EARTH HOUR and turn off your lights at 8.30pm local time for one hour this Sat 28th March. I will be thinking of all of you when I do it here in my apartment. Lots of love, yoko http://www.earthhour.org Turn out. Take action. Be part of this historic event. March 28, 2009, [...]
Celebrating 40 years anniversary of The Bed-in for Peace From the 21st until the 29th of March a commemoration about the legendary Bed-in for Peace will be held in the Hilton Amsterdam with a tripartite photo exhibition 'From Holland with Peace'. Bed-in for Peace Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono stayed in the [...]
by Giacinta Pace, MSNBC Each month, Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This month, Yoko Ono, Natasha Bedingfield and Pat Monahan tell us about their work with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a mobile audio and high-definition video recording and production facility on wheels that travels across the [...]
This is a patisserie which existed from the time John and I were in Tokyo. We use to walk to it from the hotel we stayed in. It was quite a walk, but we liked that. We were getting some exercise as well that way. It had a nice after the war elegance, spiral staircase [...]
The Cho-Do ii Book - written (in Japanese and English) and illustrated by Sean Lennon. Available from Amazon Japan. 内容紹介 ショーン レノン、初の絵本。大人も子どもも読める内容。「”ちょうどいい”ってなんだろう?」と、ウサギの少年少女たちが疑問に思い、その意味を考えていくというストーリーの絵本です。「ちょうどいい」とは、小さな幸せを育んでいく、家族や回りの人たちを大切にしていく、人を思いやる気持ちを持ち続けていくこと。ウサギの少年少女は、そういった小さいけれど、とても大切なことを学んでいきます。「ちょうどいい」は「もったいない」と同じような語感を持っています。釣り人は、釣り上げた魚が小さい時には魚を放流します。人と自然とのちょうどいい距離感を知っているからです。夏や冬、冷やし過ぎず、暖め過ぎず暮らす。ちょうどいい温度でエコでいく。「ちょうどいい」という言葉は、時代に合った大切なことを教えてくれます。レノン&ヨーコ夫妻のDNAを引き継いだ作品世界がここにあります! [...]
Yoko Ono presents an award of recognition to La Monte Young at Ono's COURAGE AWARDS FOR THE ARTS at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Feb. 1, 2009 - Photo by Bob Gruen. Yoko Ono announces today, February 1st, 2009, the presentation of the first COURAGE AWARDS FOR THE ARTS from her at the [...]
by Alicia Bridges, Perth Now. AFTER 15 years as one of the two artists behind Basement Jaxx, Simon Ratcliffe remains almost entirely anonymous. A career of international hits and critical acclaim has done little to coax him and bandmate Felix Buxton into the limelight. For most of their fans they are names without faces, and that’s [...]