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Did Yoko Ono Sell Fake John Lennon Art?

Marina Galperina — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:00:39 +0000

Oh no you didn’t, Ono… It’s possible that the fans and collectors who shelled out thousands of dollars for John Lennon prints at his widow’s SoHo exhibit may have been duped. Allegedly, they’re “cut-and-paste mashups” of Lennon’s themes — colored, altered, recomposed and otherwise fucked with by Yoko.

Also, edition of 3,000 hardly qualifies as limited. Yeah, sounds about right.

A shit-stirring tipper/artist Gary Arseneau emails ArtInfo about the ironically titled exhibit ”Gimme Some Truth: The Artwork of John Lennon:”

The so-called ‘Artwork of John Lennon’ being offered for sale in SoHo this weekend was actually posthumously forged in color and new compositions, each part of bogus editions with counterfeit John Lennon chop mark/signatures… The dead don’t create artwork, much less sign… Yoko Ono has no shame.

Yawn… She’s been selling it since the ’80s and lest we forget that tasteful breakthrough album cover.

Famous Assassinations as Minimalist Posters

Marina Galperina — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:30:12 +0000

Designer Evan Stremke’s Invitation to an Assassination minimalist posters are morbid and conflicting. They’re simple and crammed with murder specifics, active participants’ affiliation insignia and conspiracy theories surrounding the high-profile assassinations of heroes and villains of world history, like the four broken strings for four shots fired into Lennon. There are also Easter Eggs. Does that Bin Laden assasination symbol for “Operation Neptune Spear” look a bit like a cross?

Landlord Wants a Piece of John Lennon’s Suit

Marina Galperina — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:42:04 +0000

After selling John Lennon’s white suit from the cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album for $46K, Braswell Galleries was sued by the suit owner’s former NYC landlord for outstanding rent debt of $21K. That’s what you get for bragging. Whenever you score, everyone wants some money. The memorabilia collector and psychic Biond Fury must have seen it coming.

FBI Still Investigating John Lennon

Marina Galperina — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:51:38 +0000

John Lennon: dead for 30 years, still hounded by the FBI. When a Midtown memorabilia shop tried to auction Lennon’s 1976 citizenship application, the fingerprint-covered card was seized by agents. Lennon was under surveillance for antiwar activism and nearly deported by Nixon. Because the FBI is still pissed about his peace hi-jinks, all the auctioneers got was a late, faxed subpoena instead of the planned $100K.

Moon Crater Renamed for John Lennon’s Birthday

Will Sherman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:13:01 +0000

Hours after NASA’s uneventful attack on the moon, a crater was renamed the “John Lennon Peace Crater.” The International Lunar Geographic Society, the leading real estate agency for Moon property, announced the honorary name change goes into effect today, the 69th anniversary of the former Beatles-member’s birthday. Strangely, Michael Jackson got a crater named for him earlier this summer, just months after his death, not the 29 years it took for Lennon. |Imagine Peace|

No ‘Love’ For Lennon

Will Sherman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:19:37 +0000

Police arrested a John Lennon enthusiast for writing a highly original message on his Central park memorial. 51-year-old Michael Philippas was busted markering the Strawberry Fields monument with “LOVE.” |NYP|

Sean Lennon Pretends He’s Yoko Ono

Will Sherman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:44:13 +0000

For the Fall issue of Purple magazine, Sean Lennon appears in a recreation of his parents’ famous 1981 Rolling Stone cover, their last photo together by financially troubled photographer Annie Leibovitz. The new snap by Terry Richardson features Sean in his mother’s place while nude model Kemp Muhl fills in for his dead father. See the semi-NSFW homage below.

Terry Richardson photo via Homotography and Copyranter