Mind over mattress: Yoko Ono remembers the bed-in
In 1969, Ono and John Lennon took to their bed to campaign in support of world peace. Here, she recalls the experienceReading this on mobile? Watch the bed-in video here"I am just in awe that the...
View ArticleJenny Saville, Yoko Ono and Ai Weiwei – the week in art
Saville is out to show she's the feminist Freud, Ono divulges her hopes, book tips and snapshots, and Ai Weiwei is barred from his own court hearing – all in your weekly art dispatchExhibition of the...
View ArticleYoko Ono takeover: smiles of the week
As part of the artist's digital takeover, we asked you to send Yoko Ono your smiles. Here are a selection of the best grins from around the globe uploaded on Twitter this weekCheck out are a selection...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review
(Bella Union)There are few better adverts for the desirable long-term effects of youthful drug-taking than Oklahomans the Flaming Lips. Over the course of a 29-year career, the Lips have evolved from...
View ArticleMark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review
Baltic, Gateshead; Serpentine, LondonThe story is told of a Chinese peasant invited to the emperor's palace to be rewarded for his loyal service. Would he rather be paid in gold or rice? Seeing the...
View ArticlePeter Duggan's Artoons: Yoko Ono
Cartoonist Peter Duggan imagines what might have been had Yoko Ono got her artistic way on the album cover for the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review
(Bella Union)Much as I love the childlike wonder that glows from the Flaming Lips, the title of their new album makes me want to fwow up. Therein begin its problems. By the Lips' standards, the...
View ArticlePaul McCartney: Yoko Ono did not break up the Beatles
After 50 years, the singer tells David Frost that Brian Epstein's successor was to blame for rock'n'roll's most famous splitIt was almost 50 years ago and in black and white that a fresh-faced David...
View ArticleYoko Ono named Meltdown festival curator
Tokyo-born musician and activist 'deeply honoured' to organise 10-day Meltdown arts festival at Southbank centreYoko Ono has been named the next curator of the Meltdown festival at the Southbank centre...
View ArticleJohn Lennon's letters to be published as app
Fans will be able to read former Beatle's private correspondence as part of the John Lennon Letters app. Imagine …A selection of John Lennon's private correspondence will be released as an app, Digital...
View Article'I'm a good arranger – according to me'
Yoko Ono on curating next year's Meltdown festival on the Southbank, and life – and its guilty pleasures – at 80This week it was announced that artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono will be curating...
View ArticleYoko Ono's fashion line for John Lennon gives pants a chance
Inspired by sketches she drew for John Lennon's 'sexy bod', Yoko Ono has released a new clothing range. Stuart Heritage marvels at the fashion statement of the seasonFinding a gift for the man who has...
View ArticleYoko Ono's John Lennon-inspired menswear line – in pictures
Yoko Ono has designed a men's fashion range based on sketches she made with John Lennon in mind when they got married in 1969. Now hip New York label Opening Ceremony has put it into production
View ArticleJonas Mekas: the man who inspired Andy Warhol to make films
Jonas Mekas, 'the godfather of avant-garde cinema', talks to Sean O'Hagan about working with Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Jackie KennedyJonas Mekas, who will be 90 on Christmas Eve, has an intense...
View ArticleOh Carla Bruni, so feminism's over, is it? | Barbara Ellen
Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy claims her generation doesn't need feministsCarla Bruni-Sarkozy is under fire for declaring to a magazine that she has no use for feminism. "We don't need to be feminists in my...
View Article'He was a holy fool' – a classic John Lennon feature from the vaults
As we approach the anniversary of John Lennon's death on 8 December 1980, we visit Rock's Backpages– the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this insightful piece from Record...
View ArticleGeorge's dumpling party by Jonas Mekas - video
In June 1971, the Fluxus artist George Maciunas threw a dim sum party in New York for guests including Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who has a retrospective exhibition...
View ArticleWill Yoko Ono's New York Times ad help bring world peace? | Poll
On New Year's Day, artist Yoko Ono took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, saying simply 'Imagine Peace'. Money well spent?
View ArticleFracking debate draws Yoko, Lennon and Sarandon to rural battlegrounds
Artists Against Fracking board bus for magical mystery tour of Pennsylvania as New York and New Jersey decisions draw nearYoko Ono might not seem the most likely bus traveller. Northern Pennsylvania,...
View ArticleYoko Ono: happy 80th birthday!
The woman once unfairly (yes) blamed for splitting up the Beatles is now an octogenarian – but as busy as ever, gigging with son Sean and with a retrospective opening in FrankfurtAge: 80 today....
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