Recreating Banksy, London fog and Yoko Ono’s Half A Wind Show | March 13
Artist Yoko Ono’s Half A Wind Show: A Retrospective, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao 200 objects, drawings, installations, films and performance documentation from the Japanese conceptual artist’s 60-year career, flights have been cancelled at London City airport and Heathrow, The Woolwich ferry cancelled and low visibility has caused slow traffic on motorways and more in today’s daily brief.
- Chadian soldiers march during Flintlock 2014, a U.S.-led international training mission for African militaries, in Diffa, March 3, 2014. On a dusty training ground in Niger, U.S. Special Forces teach local troops to deal with suspects who resist arrest. The drill in the border town of Diffa is part of Operation Flintlock, a counter-terrorism exercise for nations on the Sahara’s southern flanks that the United States organises each year. Washington’s aim is to tackle Islamist militants in the Sahel region while keeping its military presence in Africa light. A growing number of European nations taking part shows their increasing concern about security in West Africa. Central to the international effort is a blossoming relationship between the United States and France, the former colonial power and traditional “policeman” of the turbulent region. (REUTERS/Joe Penney)
- Mili Baxter poses with a red balloon while recreating the image from artist Banksy’s “There Is Always Hope” graffiti, on Parliament Square in London March 13, 2014. The release of red balloons took place simultaneously in New York, Washington DC, Moscow, Paris and Zaatari Camp, the largest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, in an effort to raise awareness on the third anniversary of the Syrian conflict. (REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett)
- Traffic lights are seen in early morning thick fog in London March 13, 2014. Flights have been cancelled at London City airport and Heathrow, The Woolwich ferry cancelled and low visibility has caused slow traffic on motorways. (REUTERS/Russell Boyce)
- French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira blows a kiss as she leaves the Elysee Palace on a bicycle after a meeting in Paris March 13, 2014. France’s justice minister on Wednesday defied calls for her to quit after it emerged that she knew former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s phone was being tapped, apparently contradicting an earlier statement from her. (REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen)
- Hindu priests throws coloured powder at the devotees during Holi celebrations at Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, March 13, 2014. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
- A Palestinian man warms himself by a fire inside his house at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City March 13, 2014. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)
- A general view shows the Eiffel tower and the Paris skyline through a small-particle haze March 13, 2014 as warm and sunny weather continues in France. Residents and visitors to Paris basking in a streak of unseasonable sunshine were also being treated with a dangerous dose of particles from car fumes that pushed air pollution to levels above other northern European capitals this week. Swathes of France, including the French capital, were on maximum alert over air pollution on Thursday, prompting Paris authorities to make green transportation such as its Velib bike-share and the Autolib electric car fleet free for the day. (REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer)
- The work Cricket Memories hangs from the ceiling during the presentation of Yoko Ono’s Half A Wind Show: A Retrospective, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao March 13, 2014. The exhibition features two hundred objects, drawings, installations, films and performance documentation from the Japanese conceptual artist’s sixty year career. (REUTERS/Vincent West)
- Artist Yoko Ono smiles during the presentation of Half A Wind Show: A Retrospective, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao March 13, 2014. The exhibition features two hundred objects, drawings, installations, films and performance documentation from the Japanese conceptual artist’s sixty year career. (REUTERS/Vincent West)
- Mahouts pray while sitting on top of elephants during Thailand’s National Elephant Day in the ancient Thai capital Ayutthaya March 13, 2014. Thais honoured the elephant on Thursday with special fruit and Buddhist ceremonies across the country to pay homaget o their national animal. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)
- People enjoy the sunshine near a monument of the Soviet Navy in Kherson, Ukraine’s region adjacent to Crimea March 13, 2014. Ahead of a referendum on Sunday when this Ukrainian region votes to decide whether to come under Moscow’s rule, thousands of masked Russian troops have fanned out across the Crimea peninsula. (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)