Winner of the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize is Yoko Ono / e-flux

e-flux.com:

The City of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize, Ms. Yoko Ono (born 1933 in Tokyo, currently lives in New York).

About the Hiroshima Art Prize
Established by the City of Hiroshima in 1989, the Hiroshima Art Prize recognizes the achievements of artists who have contributed to the peace of humanity in the field of contemporary art, and through contemporary art aims to appeal to a wider world and the spread the "Spirit of Hiroshima," which seeks everlasting world peace. This prize is awarded once every three years.

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Comments

[MarcEdward]

10:39 AM on 01/19/2011

Cult of personality in action, famous for who she married and little else.

[Darcypup]

03:38 AM on 01/19/2011

Well deserved, not only a great artist but also a passionate peace activist. Congrats

[noelalumit]

01:07 AM on 01/18/2011

It is argued that Ms. Ono is the most famous Japanese person in the world--I agree.

[3dtrix]

12:44 AM on 01/18/2011

A fascinating individual. A titan of twentieth-century culture. Artist - poet - musician - muse - master media manipulator - culture maven - pop icon. Always has something interesting to say - always a different perspective.

A true artist sees what we see - but differently than we do - and then shows it to us in a way that we never see it in the same way again. To do that once is amazing - to do it again and again is the rarest of gifts.

Yoko Ono is truly a gifted woman...

[imajoebob]

07:59 PM on 01/17/2011

A few years ago i walked into a bunch of art studios/galleries that had just opened in LA. One of them happened to be showing some small pieces and photos of Ms Ono. I was blown away and have been a fan ever since. She really is a great artist, both fine and performance. I don't know that she'd be any more successful had she not met Lennon, but I have no doubt her work would be taken a lot more seriously, and she'd be considered one of the "leading" artists of her time.

[MolliBlum redux]

09:56 AM on 01/18/2011

Yes, I think that in many ways her own work as an artist was overshadowed by that.

[zizizzi]

02:41 PM on 01/18/2011

Agreed!