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Yoko Ono’s Music Of The Mind at The Broad

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A Guest Post (and Photos) By Geoffrey Dicker

Mention Yoko Ono’s name and chances are you’ll get a reaction. For many people, she’s still remembered more for the myths that surround her than for her art — whether it’s the persistent claim that she broke up The Beatles or strong opinions about her famously experimental music.

The Broad’s Music of the Mind, the first major museum retrospective of Ono’s work in Los Angeles, does an excellent job of moving past those preconceptions. Instead, it invites visitors to experience her as one of the most inventive conceptual artists of the last century, revealing an artist whose ideas have been far more influential than many people realize.

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Pink Thing Of The Day: Shell Pink Knotted Gun For The Non-Violence Project

Shell Pink
Photo By Gail

The Non-Violence Project Foundation (NVP) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire, motivate and engage young people on how to peacefully resolve conflicts. It holds violence prevention and nonviolence education programs for schools and sports clubs around the world.
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Video Clip of The Week: Moby Rich, “Yoko Ono”

I feel no shame in confessing that the highlight of my day — and I do mean every single day — is the moment I slip into my bed after being swept away by too much TV and snuggle in the darkness with my pillows and comforter until I achieve full comfort, and drift off into a marvelously dream-filled sleep. Because sleeping is my jam. I once had a dream where my bed became a car, and I took to the streets for the day’s adventures with no one seeming to even notice that my vehicle was, in fact, a bed. Unlike those stress-dreams where you are either naked or sitting on a toilet in public, it was awesome.

It is surely no surprise then that the video for “Yoko Ono,” from a brand new LA-based musical duo called Moby Rich (because those are their names) sold me at around the 50 second mark, as Moby (and) Rich take the John-and-Yoko-Bed-In theme to a delightful extreme. I predict you will also sit totally rapt as the duo – still clad in color-coordinating blue pajamas — cruise in their tiwn beds out onto the streets of downtown LA while singing about their dream of finding an ideal other — a “Yoko Ono Muse” if you will — who completes them. Can you even imagine how much fucking fun this video was to film? I can’t even.

Aurally, “Yoko Ono” is a stone groove: a wistful love song floating in on a trip-hop beat that’s just the perfect mix of electronica and blue-eyed soul that would turn Daryl Hall green with envy. I fucking love it, and I think you will as well. “Yoko Ono” the single is out now on TaP Records, and it will eventual show up on the duo’s forthcoming debut EP. Enjoy!

Moby Rich Duo

Yoko Ono’s One Woman Show 1960 – 1971 at MOMA

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All Photos By Gail. Click on Any Image to Enlarge for Detail.

99% of the time, Yoko Ono is a subject that just takes too long to talk about. Whether you love her or hate her, few would deny that Ono is one of the more polarizing Pop Culture figures of the past fifty years. Most people likely know her as John Lennon’s second wife, as well as his primary post-Beatles artistic/musical partner, and have probably based their opinion on the couple’s various collaborations — which are quite well known. But before Yoko Ono even met John Lennon, she was a groundbreaking visual artist whose extremely unique and original ideas about what constitutes a viable work of ‘Art’ were fucking with people’s heads. Just being serious. Continue reading Yoko Ono’s One Woman Show 1960 – 1971 at MOMA

By Proxy Group Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery

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James Cohan Gallery is currently hosting a diverse a group exhibition entitled By Proxy, which Geoffrey and I stumbled upon during our most recent art crawl.

Oliver Laric Yuanmingyuan Columns,
Oliver Laric, Yuanmingyuan Columns
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