onochord documentary by yoko ono
Watch Yoko Ono's documentary about her piece ONOCHORD.

give peace a chance (the remixes) to number one
The remixes reached # 1 on the Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Chart (Issue Date: 2008-8-16)

yoko ono: imagining peace 1966-2008
Bucknell University press release: "Kevin Concannon will give the talk, "Yoko Ono: Imagining Peace 1966-2008," on Friday, Aug. 29, at 5 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.

The talk, which is free to the public, will be followed by an opening reception in the Samek Art Gallery for the exhibition, YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John and Yoko's Year of Peace, co-curated with John Noga, graduate assistant at The Myers School of Art."

‘Imagine Peace’ opens at gallery

lennon's killer again denied parole
The Guardian (August 13th 2008): "John Lennon's killer was again denied parole yesterday, the fifth time he has been refused early release from prison. "It's dangerous for him to come out," Yoko Ono told the New York Daily News earlier this week. "Not only for us, but for himself. There are so many people out there who dislike him. It's safer for him to stay in jail."

obscene, film biography of barney rosset
Rush PR News (August 13th 2008): "OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. The film features interviews and archival footage of Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Kim Hastreiter, Grace Jones, Madonna, Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle, Kenny Scharf, Carlo McCormick, Andy Warhol, Ann Magnuson, Tony Shafrazi, and Junior Vasquez, among many others."

yoko ono discusses lennon's art
Hampton's (August 11th 2008): Internet "helps more people to see the work and know the love and peace both John and I are about – it helps for those that may not be able to attend any of the exhibitions, but we hope that people will get out and physically attend the exhibitions in different cities so that it gets them talking to each other as well. It's important for people who do not know John's work to stop by the exhibit to fully understand it."

arts dialogue: a tribute to john lennon and yoko ono
Art Fairs International (August 7th 2008): "Beginning Sunday August 17, and continuing for the rest of the summer Lubelski and his family will give interviews, answer questions, and have frank and open conversations with the public to spread their words of peace and creativity to a global audience. Lubelski, who realizes that performance art engages the public through its immediacy will make slight but significant changes in order to alter the original work, propelling it toward new territory."

bell of peace
A Yoko Ono exhibition in the Gakushuin Women's College in Tokyo: October 20th 2008 - January 25th 2009

Works of art in the exhibition: Wish Tree, Mending Piece, My Mummy Is Beautiful, and a new piece titled Bell of Peace.

pasadena wish trees for dreams, big and small, until nov. 9
Pasadena Star-News (August 2nd 2008): "The Yoko Ono "Wish Tree" installation at One Colorado in Pasadena. Everyone was invited to write a wish on special labels and tie them to one of 21 crape myrtle tree.

World peace is all very well, but what 3-year-old Cabral Corvelo really wants is "To make a water balloon and a pancake."

Yoko Ono speaks on impact of wish tree project
Yoko Ono art installation attracts 10,000 wishes in one week

dream power john lennon super live
The concert at Nihon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, on December 8th 2008

"Out of the proceeds from the 7th "Dream Power John Lennon Super Live" which was held last year, a total of 10 schools will be built in China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kenya..."

grapefruit as an idea
Joan E. Stoltman's thesis "Engage, Perform, Act: How Contemporary Artists Use the Book as Form and the Book as Idea" involves also Yoko Ono's book Grapefruit: "Grapefruit's readers are intrinsic to the realization of the artworks; since they are inestimable, the book's potential is inestimable."