Gender and art

"Addressing a crowd of journalists gathered at the press launch of her major retrospective at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Yoko Ono begins by telling us how cynical she is. It’s quite a claim considering it’s just about the last thing you’d ever think to call her. Perhaps she’s finally tired of being dismissed as a naive idealist. But no, it’s just a roundabout way for her to express her astonishment at the extraordinary architecture of Frank Gehry’s glinting, titanium-clad masterpiece, which opened 16 years ago in this Basque city of northern Spain. Being “naturally cynical” she hadn’t, she said, quite believed any of the claims made for it until she saw it for herself.  Now she wants to tell us that it’s the best museum in the world."

Yoko Ono: Half-A-Wind-Show at Guggenheim Bilbao until 29 June

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/

Provocative images abound in “Half-a-Wind,” Yoko Ono’s first comprehensive retrospective in Austria. As early as the mid-1950s, Ono had begun orchestrating conceptual-art performances with her first husband, avant-garde composer Ichiyanagi Toshi. The Kunsthalle Krems museum showcases stills from many of these initial performances—among the pictures on display are a young Ono suspended above the audience in Chair Piece, and the artist stretched across the piano during experimental musician John Cage’s Music Walk.

Yoko Ono. Half-a-Wind Show

Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, through 23/02/2014

http://www.kunsthalle.at/en/kunsthalle-krems/exhibitions/yoko-ono

Yoko Ono

Walking On Thin Ice, vídeo, 1981.

"In celebration of Yoko Ono’s eightieth birthday in 2013, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao welcomes a unique retrospective of one of the most influential artists of our times—a living legend who holds a special place in contemporary art, music and experimental film—Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show — A Retrospective from March 14 to September 1, 2014."

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/exhibitions/yoko-ono-half-a-wind-show-retrospective-2/

This survey of works by legendary artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono is part of the 2013–14 Sydney International Art Series.

Famously described by John Lennon as ‘the world’s most famous unknown artist’, Ono is now recognised as an innovative artist whose work traverses generations. From the personal to the political, Ono has embraced themes of loss, conflict, humanity, and the desire for world peace through her art.

Delight in sculpture, immersive installations, written texts, films, sound compositions and participatory art works which will involve you in a range of hands-on activities – from mending and arranging broken crockery, to stamping world maps with peace stamps, to writing personal messages of love to your mother.

War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono

15 November 2013-23 February 2014

MCA The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

http://www.mca.com.au/exhibition/war-over-if-you-want-it-yoko-ono/