” Yoko recalls. “George Brecht, Jonas Mekas, LaMonte Young, Jackson MacLow, just about everyone performed in it. And Richard Maxfield helped me on the electronic side. I set up everything and then made the stage very dim, so you had to strain your...
La Monte Young, and George Brecht. Between them, they changed the gravitational pull of the art world. Ono provoked audiences, even daring them to join her in the making of the art in work like 1964’sCut Piece, in which she sat onstage in a ...
Yoko Ono. Archive Footage: The Beatles: Get Back. Yoko Ono was born on Saturday, February 18th, 1933, in her ancestral estate in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Eisuke Ono, was the descendant of a 9th Century Emperor of Japan. Her mother, Isoko Yasuda Ono, was
Ono says she will never give up on life as long as the sky is there. The exhibition includes several works that use the heavens as a motif: from her earlySky TV(1967), where she employed the latest technology to transmit live images of the sky into her apartment in real time, to mor...
AlthoughTwo Virginswas to become one of the most controversial episodes of Lennon’s life, his union with Yoko Ono caused a monumentally significant personal shift. It marked the beginning of the end of his time as a Beatle, and, influenced by Ono, saw him increasingly challenge public expecta...
Anna Sawai Amy Sussman/Getty Images Anna Sawai is seriously hot property in Hollywood right now — but the award-winning star of Shōgun has responded noncommittally to buzz around her taking on the role of Yoko Ono in the hotly anticipated Beatles movies. Speaking to Us Weekly and other p...
(Ono Photo: Getty Images) § Calvin Klein Collection Spring 2012 VIBE:With the gorgeous model/muse Lara Stone, Uma Thurman, andNaomi Watts, in the front row, Calvin revealed his delicate clean lined spring collection. Nude pieces ran rampant on the runway in the form of silk dresses, sheer...
(Ono Photo: Getty Images) § Calvin Klein Collection Spring 2012 VIBE:With the gorgeous model/muse Lara Stone, Uma Thurman, andNaomi Watts, in the front row, Calvin revealed his delicate clean lined spring collection. Nude pieces ran rampant on the runway in the form of ...
Well, he was different over the years as he disintegrated. He ended up the kind of guy that you dread when he would come on the phone, because you knew it was trouble. He was really in a lot of pain. In the early days, he was all right, because he was young and confident. He...
elsewhere. The images were then printed on vinyl and placed on the floor for visitors to walk on. These photographs have a documentary ethos and something more: an innate honesty and humanity that one expects Ono would care for. They certainly amplify the wider humanistic current at work here...