#new york ono

[jaerie]

He’s going to kill himself with that mic cord one of these days

#Harry styles #new york ono #new york one night only #cinema #weirdo styles

[javelinbk]

‘Tis the season for one of the greatest photos of all time…

John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Julian Lennon sledging in New York’s Central Park, December 1977. Photo by Nishi F. Saimaru.

#I'm with yoko tbh but still glad to see john having so much fun #john lennon #julian lennon #yoko ono #john and yoko #new york 1977 #and so this is christmas

[whileiamdying]

Marina Abramovic Relents and Adapts a Provocative Piece for Today

1970s has been altered to suit contemporary mores. “Really, the smart thing to do is compromise,” the artist said.

For a presentation of Marina Abramovic’s 1977 work “Imponderabilia” at the Royal Academy in London, an alternative doorway is provided if visitors do not wish to pass close by two naked performers.Credit...David Parry/Royal Academy of Arts, London

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Sept. 25, 2023

In June 1977, visitors to the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, Italy, were met with a shocking sight: Marina Abramovic, the Serbian performance artist, and her partner, Ulay, standing in the museum’s doorway, completely naked.

The only way inside was to squeeze between the couple.

Abramovic and Ulay remained in place for three hours, staring intently into each other’s eyes, as a stream of visitors pushed through and sometimes stepped on their toes. Then, the police arrived, and shut down the performance as obscene.

This fall, Abramovic, now 76, is restaging that work, “Imponderabilia,” at the Royal Academy of Arts, in London, as part of a major retrospective of her work that runs through Jan. 1, 2024. Since Abramovic no longer performs the work herself, and Ulay died in 2020, she has recruited younger performers to take part — and there is another major difference from the 1977 piece.

If a visitor would rather not squeeze past a naked man and woman in a three-foot-wide doorway, they can walk through another entryway to the left, and skip the experience entirely.

In an age when museums are grappling with how to show audiences challenging work, and adopting measures to protect artists and staff, Abramovic is also adapting her old works to suit contemporary mores.

On a recent morning, most visitors chose that nonconfrontational route, until Sarah Raper, 59, gave her coat to her husband and announced: “I’m going to do it!” Raper then briskly pushed past the naked man and woman, facing the female performer.

“That was quite unsettling,” Raper said afterward; it felt like “a real invasion of personal space.”

Jason Speechly, 60, stood watching the two naked performers curiously for several minutes but then opted for the other door. “I just got sheepish and followed the rest of the crowd,” he said.

In an interview, Abramovic said she’d had “millions of meetings” with the Royal Academy’s staff to ensure “Imponderabilia” and three other provocative performances could be included in the retrospective — and she was now conflicted about the compromises that she had made.

If “all of these restrictions we are facing now” had been in place in the 1970s, she said, 80 percent of her works would never have been performed. On the other hand, Abramovic said, artists should not “live in a prison of your own promises” and refuse to change with the times. By making concessions, a new generation was witnessing her art, she said. If she’d complained about the new doorway for “Imponderabilia,” the performance would only exist as “a stupid gray photo in a book” that no one would ever see.

“Really, the smart thing to do is compromise,” she said.

Abramovic has done this with “Imponderabilia” before: In 2010, for “The Artist is Present,” a career survey at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Abramovic said that MoMA asked for the performers to stand far enough apart so that a wheelchair user could pass between them. “I felt the piece really suffered for that,” she said.

MoMA’s lawyers also asked for significant changes to “Luminosity,” a 1997 endurance feat in which Abramovic sat naked on a bicycle seat mounted high on a gallery wall for six hours while holding her arms and legs outstretched. The MoMA presentation used other performers, and the day before the opening, Abramovic said, the museum’s lawyers insisted that they needed to wear a helmet and safety belt.

“I said, ‘This is ridiculous!’” Abramovic recalled. “‘It’ll become a ridiculous work.’” She said she ended up signing documents that made her personally liable for $1 million in case of any accidents, and the piece went ahead as planned.

Brittany Bailey performing “Luminosity,” a 1997 work by Abramovic, in the Royal Academy show.Credit...Joshua Bright for The New York Times

MoMA did not respond to a request for comment. Klaus Biesenbach, a former MoMA chief curator at large, who organized the 2010 show, said in an email that he couldn’t remember “details and anecdotes” as well as Abramovic can, but added that “it was a miracle” that the exhibition took place.

Biesenbach is now the director of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, where he recently saw another example of how attitudes to performance art have changed over time, he said. Earlier this month, the museum restaged Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece,” a 1964 work in which audience members are invited to snip away a performer’s clothes with scissors. The audience behavior today was very different from the 1960s, he said, with visitors aware that there was a “‘right’ or correct” way to act, and conscious that hundreds of cellphone cameras were trained upon them.

Andrea Tarsia, the Royal Academy’s director of exhibitions, said that most of the changes for the Abramovic show were small and made for the performers’ safety and comfort. With “Imponderabilia,” for instance, the doorway was heated so that the naked man and woman, who stand there for up to an hour at a time, don’t catch a chill.

Nearby security guards also keep an eye on visitor behavior, Tarsia said, and at the end of each day, the performers gather for a “detox” session to discuss any uncomfortable moments that occurred. All performers would have access to therapists, Tarsia added.

The doorway at the Royal Academy is heated so that the performers in “Imponderabilia,” who stand there for up to an hour at a time, don’t catch a chill. Credit... David Parry/Royal Academy of Arts, London

And even if visitors avoid squeezing past the naked bodies, Tarsia said, the work would get them thinking. “In art, when something riles you, that’s often where the interesting bit is,” Tarsia said. “Maybe if people choose not to go through the door, they’ll later reflect on why they made that choice,” he added.

Abramovic, who recently survived a life-threatening embolism and spent time in a coma, said that she did not mind if only a handful of visitors experienced “Imponderabilia” as she originally intended it. Artists, she said, committed to their performances no matter what happened during them.

“If there’s an earthquake, if electricity stops, if somebody walks into you, it’s all part of the work,” she said. “And if nobody passes, that’s still part of the work.”

Alex Marshall is a European culture reporter, based in London. More about Alex Marshall

#Marina Abramović #MoMA #The New York Times #Alex Marshall #Ulay #Yoko Ono

[twixnmix]

Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Liz Smith, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and André Gregory during an AIDS benefit at the Javits Center in New York City on April 29, 1986.  

#yoko ono #sean lennon #keith haring #andy warhol #liz smith #andre gregory #1986 #1980s #pop art #aids awareness #new york city

[kiwikiwiandkiwi]

Harry Styles One Night Only New York

#harry styles #stylesedits #stylesnews #hledit #hlcreators #hljournal #harry #one night only new york #hsh ono ny #2022 #*

[stone-cold-groove]

War is over!

#john & yoko #john lennon #yoko ono #new york city #nyc #christmas time #outdord boards #vintage advertising #vintage ads

[bandcampsnoop]

2/12/24.

I mentioned a possible new Lemon Twigs (New York) album on January 2nd. Here it is. It deserves a reminder post.

"My Golden Years" is still here and the 2nd song "They Don't Know How To Fall In Place" is here as well.

Sean Ono Lennon works with the D'Addario brothers on "In The Eyes of A Girl".

Apparently the brothers like to say this album was created in a mythical place called Mersey Beach (a place between Liverpool and Laurel Canyon).

Captured Tracks will be releasing this on May 3, 2024.

#The Lemon Twigs #Brian D'Addario #Michael D'Addario #Sean Ono Lennon #Mersey Beach #Liverpool #Laurel Canyon #Captured Tracks #New York #Bandcamp

[the-cricket-chirps]

Andy Warhol

Sean Lennon

1985/86

#andy warhol #sean lennon #pop artist #pop art #celebrity portraits #celebrity culture #american artist #american painter #queer artist #queer painter #queer art history #john lennon #yoko ono #new york art #modern art #warhol factory #art history #aesthetictumblr #american art #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #aesthetic #artists on tumblr #tumblrposts

[krispyweiss]

“WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” Gets Oscar Nomination

- Animated short is showing in select theaters in package with other nominees

A 53-year-old song inspired a short film that is now up for a 2024 Oscar.

The animated short is titled “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” and based loosely around 1971’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over!).” But this 11-minute film focuses not on the main title, but rather, its parenthetical subtitle.

“This is an anti-war song; it’s a protest song,” writer and director Dave Mullins said in a making-of featurette for the film. “It’s why we didn’t make a Christmas or holiday short - we made an anti-war short.”

There’s no dialogue as “WAR IS OVER!” tells the story of soldiers on opposing sides of a fictionalized battlefield playing a surreptitious game of chess via carrier pigeon as the fighting rages. The filmmakers had trouble finding a place for the title song - executive producer Sean Ono Lennon had no interest in making a traditional music video for such a well-known number - so it runs over the credits. Thomas Newman composed the score, which Mullins said serves “as the emotional voice of the characters.”

Lennon said he wanted to “do good by (his parents’) art” in working on the short.

“What I don’t want,” he later told The New York Times, “is for my mother and father’s work to disappear with the sands of time.”

Not yet streaming, “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” is showing in select North American movie houses in package screenings with other Oscar nominees in the Animated Short Film category.

3/2/24

#Youtube #war is over! inspired by the music of john & yoko #happy xmas (war is over!) #john lennon #yoko ono #sean ono lennon #dave mullins #thomas newman #the beatles #the new york times

[jaerie]

When I tell you the arena was silent for this save for the swell of voices winging along when it counted... I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed that happening before. 

Matilda - New York One Night Only

#harry styles #new york ono #new york one night only #harrys house

[twopoppies]

The outro song is fairytale of New York?! The lyrics help?!?!

Got on a lucky one

Came in eighteen to one

I've got a feeling

This year's for me and you

So happy Christmas

I love you baby

I can see a better time

When all our dreams come true

I think it’s a really popular Christmas song in the UK (although it doesn’t sound like a completely happy one, and The Pogues are not who I’d expect to be doing Christmas music).

#fairytale of new york #outro song #fitf ono london

[larrylimericks]

2May22

Harry’s House will debut at Irving’s, A TMZ vid’s stunt-confirming, A new trailer dropped, O’s in it a lot— In more ways than one, she’s self-serving.

#larry #harry #harry styles #stunts #holivia #don't worry darling #harry's house #a one night only was announced for harry's house #after yah doors showed performances in L.A. and London ... #it turns out hs3 ONO will be in new york #at ubs arena which is an azoff investment #tmz published a video today of the cinemacon incident #shortly after the new dwd trailer dropped #i don't know how it's a stunt — just that it is a stunt #the video is backgrid but we don't know if they shot it or bought it #even if what happened was authentic ... #at the very least the video was held for release #for max engagement with the new dwd trailer #but her response is just so suspect #why stop mid-sentence during a very important first press appearance for your big movie? #especially if you thought someone was just slipping you a script? #and then she picks right back up with her train of thought? #but i don't put staging the event past her (as in not a real serving) #another thing that's sus is that no one had any way of knowing what was in the envelope #and no media outlet has specified the source for that info #i've got six months to work on compartmentalizing my desire to see h absolutely kill it in this movie #and my loathing of this woman who prioritizes ambition above ethics #and just shrugs it off as 'hollywood rules' #limerick-hs #may 2

[obetrolncocktails]

The fact that Brittany Broski met Harry makes me so happy for her but also makes me laugh because I quote her saying, “I could never meet that man in real life because…” *puke noises*

#Anna’s thoughts #Brittany broski #harry styles #ONO New York

[casio-vl-tone]

I have a funny story.

In the late 70s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono invited David Bowie to Hong Kong on Holiday.

During a walk in some back streets a kid comes running up to John Lennon and asks “are you John Lennon!?!?” To which he responds, “ no, but I wish I had his money”

Bowie found this line brilliant and decided to steal it for himself.

A few months later, Bowie was back in New York and while walking around In Soho, a man walks up behind him and asks “are you David bowie??!” And without looking, bowie quickly responds “no, but I wish I had his money” the man then says “you lying bastard. You wish you had MY money” it was John Lennon.

#john lennon #david bowie #music #funny stuff #funny story #the beatles #yoko ono #sean lennon #rock #rock and roll #70s rock #70s music #60s 70s 80s 90s #70s style #new york #new york city #hong kong #sohonyc

[awesomefringey]

OTB

That’s hella specific.

And it’s not even a single. 🤧

#ono new york #usb arena #larry coding #2022 larry coding #what is this arena bar place though? is that inside the venue or around the area?