Yes: Yoko Ono receives the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement from Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari.
On June 6, the Venice Biennale presented artist Yoko Ono (born 1933) with one of its most prestigious honors, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Ono was nominated for the distinction along with American John Baldessari by the director of this year's biennale, Daniel Birnbaum.
Ono's contributions to the formulation of conceptual and performance art have long been overshadowed by her marriage to Beatles' member John Lennon..... [rc]
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July 10, 2009
JAPAN: Artist Yoko Ono is honored on own merits
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TOKYO, Japan / The Japan Times / July 10, 2009
The contemporary art world shows that it sees Ono as one of them on her own merits
By Andrew Maerkle
Special to The Japan Times
Yes: Yoko Ono receives the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement from Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari.
On June 6, the Venice Biennale presented artist Yoko Ono (born 1933) with one of its most prestigious honors, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Ono was nominated for the distinction along with American John Baldessari by the director of this year's biennale, Daniel Birnbaum.
Ono's contributions to the formulation of conceptual and performance art have long been overshadowed by her marriage to Beatles' member John Lennon..... [rc]
Click here to read more
(C) The Japan Times
Yes: Yoko Ono receives the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement from Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari.
On June 6, the Venice Biennale presented artist Yoko Ono (born 1933) with one of its most prestigious honors, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Ono was nominated for the distinction along with American John Baldessari by the director of this year's biennale, Daniel Birnbaum.
Ono's contributions to the formulation of conceptual and performance art have long been overshadowed by her marriage to Beatles' member John Lennon..... [rc]
Click here to read more
(C) The Japan Times
