October 10, 2008
Ono Celebrates Lennon's 68th with "Imagine Peace" Exhibit
Last night (on what would have been his 68th birthday), the Openhouse Gallery in SoHo opened their exhibit "Imagine Peace," displaying over 100 of John Lennon's drawings.
The installation will be around through the weekend, and it'll cost you $2 to get in, with the money going towards City Meals-on-Wheels. Featuring "Lennon’s characteristic drawings in hand-signed pieces and limited edition prints, as well as serigraphs, lithographs, copper etchings and aqua tints," some of the collection has never been on view before. And if If you want to loosen the purse strings even more, the press release declares that pieces are available for purchase.
Just who's behind all this? Yoko Ono, of course!
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Fast-forward to a little old lady opening up her Meals-on-Wheels care package to find a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat.
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FYI, since this information doesn't seem to be available online, the exhibit is open tonight (Friday) until 9pm, Saturday from 11am to 8pm, and Sunday from 11am to 6pm.
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you guys know that john lennon was a wife beater right? he loved to punch the shit out of women.
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^ and he apparently jerked off a lot, probably because he was trapped in that shithole with a nasty old hag that wouldn't put out.
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Under U.S. Customs regulations a "lithograph" must be "wholly executed by hand by the artist" and "excludes any mechanical and photomechanical processes."
Under U.S. Copyright Law 106a the Right of Attribution shall not apply to a reproduction.
In other words, lithographs ie., original works of visual art created by an artist and reproductions of original works of visual art done by someone other than the artist are not interchangeable, much less the same
As an artist and creator of original lithographs, I do speak from experience and as a scholar, I can document with authority.
Unfortunately, the marketplace is dominated by those who misrepresent, with or without intent, reproductions as original works of visual art ie., lithographs, serigraphs, woodcuts, etchings and the like.
Hence the public's misconception on what constitutes a work of visual art, much less a lithograph.
As for the so-called "Artwork of John Lennon" exhibit at the State of New York based Openhouse Gallery, the failure by Yoko Ono and Legacy Fine Art Production Inc. to disclose the posthumous black-and-white reproductions, posthumous colorized fakes and posthumous colorized altered composition fakes, at best, as reproductions violates New York Civil Code statutes 11.01 mandating disclosure of reproductions as reproductions if sold for $100 or more.
This Artwork of John Lennon exhibit sells these 50.000+ non-disclosed reproductions and fakes, to the unsuspecting public, for $500 to $9,000 or more each for a gross of well over $100 million.
The penalties, under New York Civil Code statutes 11.01 for failing to disclose reproductions as reproductions may include but limited to, refund, interest and treble damages.
If one suspends disbelief, Yoko Ono would have you believe John Lennon has created more original works of visual art in the last twenty-two years than any living artist.
How'd he do that?
To find out the obvious, link to: http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/2006/09/artwork-of-john-lennon-fraud.html
Respectfully,
Gary Arseneau
artist, creator of original lithographs & scholar
Fernandina Beach, Florida
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Once again, Yoko Ono milks the name of her dead husband, he's a rotting cash cow.
She needs to get it into her head that people are sick to death with her, and definately a lot of people resent her husband now... part because of how Julian was treated.
Oh, and he's not that good an artist.
Had he not been murdered, I wonder if he'd whine as much about not being taken seriously as an artist like how he whined about how people liked Paul's songs more than his own.