From "The Sunday Telegraph" -

Robert Rosen, Sunday Telegraph photographer - had a nice experience with Yoko. He was determined to take a portrait of her to be included in "Kelloggs' Beating the Blues" - a celebrity portrait auction to raise funds for an organization called, Kids Help Line.

The news report stated that "publicists initially knocked him back" but Rosen decided to ask Yoko nicely when he saw her in person. Apparently, he asked nicely enough, because Yoko agreed to the portrait, and it happened on the spot.

Rosen: "I only had five minutes, but I had my black backdrop with me and we got along very well. So I had no problems taking the portrait, although I had butterflies in my stomach."

Yoko was so pleased with the Polaroid, she asked Rosen for a copy and gave him her New York address.

100 COFFINS ON THE MOVE..

Two news reports from Sydney mentioned how amazing it was that Eddie Capon from the Art Gallery of NSW rolled up his sleeves and helped undo a bad feng shui  situation with Yoko's Ex It exhibition. Feng shui is a Chinese philosophy dealing with the arrangement of furniture in your household to harmonize with the flow of "ch'i" - the life force around us.

When Yoko arrived at the gallery, she saw that the coffins were facing the door, so they were all turned around to face the opposite direction!

ABORIGINAL ART AND CRABS..

Yoko flew out of Sydney, according to one newsclip, with a selection of Aboriginal artworks "wrapped snugly in her luggage." Yoko admired the work of Aboriginal artist, John Mawurndjal so much, she visited the Aboriginal and Pacific Island Gallery with the artist on Thursday (May 25) and bought her selection.

Yoko was also taken with Sydney's mud crab and was seen dining out at the Imperial Peking of The Rocks restaurant on two consecutive days.

LECTURE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

(Screen Shot of Yoko's Quicktime Webcast
May 26, 2000 in Sydney, Australia
Courtesy Jordan Scoggins)

Yoko's lecture at the Sydney Opera House was webcast live on May 26. The webcast has been archived on the Biennale of Sydney web site for those who missed it.

MORE BIENNALE - Ex It

INTERVIEWS (Courtesy Ian Cole) - Daily Telegraph and ABC TV, Kerry O'Brien

Other Biennale of Sydney stories:

Visit Ian Cole's Site: Biennale 2000

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ABC News - Yahoo Report