Following the performance, Ono took to Twitter to react and share her thoughts on what ‘Imagine’ embodied to her and Lennon.
“IMAGINE. John and I were both artists and we were living together, so we inspired each other,” she wrote. “The song ‘Imagine’ embodied what we believed together at the time. John and I met – he comes from the West and I come from the East – and still we are together.”
Read MoreTOKYO -- It was a scream heard round the world -- a revolutionary roar that, half a century ago, ripped through the divergent worlds of avant-garde art and rock music. The source of that big sound was Yoko Ono, a small-framed Japanese woman who had become Beatle John Lennon's partner in art-making and in life, shaking up the creative fields the two of them represented and, over time, becoming an influential bridge between Eastern and Western sensibilities in the emerging global pop culture of the late 1960s and the 1970s.
Read More'Call Me By Your Name', a new show opening on 21 July—featuring a line-up that includes Atul and Anju Dodiya, Sudhir Patwardhan and Shilpa Gupta among others—hopes to answer that time-tested question: Can love complete us?
Read MoreFor the past two decades, Chiharu Shiota has created entire universes woven from pieces of string, which has become her signature medium in the making of deeply moving, haunting and poetic large-scale environments interspersed with found objects like shoes, dresses, book pages, suitcases, bed frames, windows and doors.
Read MoreWhen I last met Shilpa Gupta, she was writing across the night sky. Gupta was finessing the installation of one of her trademark neon-light works We Change Each Other on Mumbai’s Carter Road promenade. Its location by the Arabian Sea, blinking against the unfettered sky, illustrated the telegraphic nature of Gupta’s work. They are portals that lead to other worlds of meaning
Read More“I’m currently working for Griffin Art Projects, which is a non-profit gallery and residency space located in North Vancouver on the traditional territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬtəməxʷ, Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w and S’ólh Téméxw Nations. The exhibition William Kentridge: The Colander, opened in May and as part of that project, is the Worldings conference, which arises out of interest in Kentridge and his work on pre- and post-apartheid South Africa.“
Read MoreShiota’s installations typically employ thread like a spider’s web wrapping up everyday objects such as shoes and dresses. She clearly has admirers in Asia, too, as her previous record of $243,000 was set at Phillips in Hong Kong. That was about four times the estimate.
Read MoreWhen I was invited to create this show, I was very happy but while I was preparing for it, my doctor told me that my cancer returned so I had to do an operation and chemotherapy. During this time, I was thinking a lot about life and death, questions like "if my body would die, where is my soul going?". Because of that, I put this kind of feeling in the title, The Soul Trembles.
Read MoreSince 5:45am Pacific time, at sunrise in Los Angeles, museums around the world have been streaming videos of the sky on Zoom. In collaboration with Ono, the Getty Research Institute and the Feminist Center for Creative Work invited around 50 museums to project 24-hour videos for “TV to See the Sky,” an event marking the summer solstice and the first full moon of the season, known as the strawberry moon.
Read MoreFrom 9th September to 12th December 2021, Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space will present the most extensive exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s drawings ever shown in the UK. Over the course of a career that has spanned six decades, Richter has been widely acknowledged as one of the most influential contemporary artists in the world.
Read MoreNeshat will exhibit her series Land of Dreams (2019), which comprises 111 photographs and a two-channel film installation about the residents of New Mexico. Land of Dreams premiered at the Broad museum in Los Angeles and has since shown at Gladstone Gallery and Goodman Gallery.
Read MoreRichter’s solo show consists of four square paintings of kaleidoscopic colors arranged in grids. In fact, they are one work titled “4900 Colours.” The piece consists of 196 square panels, each of which consists of 25 squares of different colors, configured into four paintings. The artist conceived “4900 Colours” to be configured in a number of versions, from one gigantic-scale piece to multiple, smaller pieces. The configuration in Espace Louis Vuitton Seoul is Version IX.
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