{"id":75049,"date":"2026-10-15T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/joni-mitchell-reveals-paintings-book-news-talks-u-s-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:13:44","slug":"joni-mitchell-reveals-paintings-book-news-talks-u-s-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/joni-mitchell-reveals-paintings-book-news-talks-u-s-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Mitchell Reveals Paintings Book ‘NEWS,’ Talks U.S. Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tOn Tuesday, Joni Mitchell<\/a> obtained her dual citizenship<\/a> in the U.S. and Canada \u2014 62 years after living in the States. \u201cI became a citizen so I could vote,\u201d Mitchell tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m a proud Canerican like Neil Young.\u201d (Mitchell\u2019s longtime pal became a U.S. citizen<\/a> in 2020, 54 years after illegally crossing the U.S. border in a Pontiac hearse.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd now that she\u2019s officially an American, Mitchell says she has some work to do. On Nov. 4, three days before her 83rd birthday, the legend will release NEWS<\/em>, a collection of 23 paintings that tackle the 24-hour news cycle. A lifelong painter, Mitchell conceived, executed, and designed the project herself, which features song lyrics, imagery, and slogans. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRecently I retired from music in order to pursue my first love, painting,\u201d the back cover of NEWS <\/em>reads. \u201cWhen [George] Bush was president and the Twin Towers in New York were attacked, I did a series<\/a> of political paintings<\/a>. In the current climate, I felt a need to express my concern. It is an artist\u2019s duty to speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mitchell added: \u201cPicasso created \u2018Guernica\u2019 to protest the Spanish Civil War. Charlie Chaplin\u2019s film The Great Dictator <\/em>ridiculed Hitler. Mel Brooks\u2019 comedy The Producers <\/em>also took a poke at that mad man with Springtime for Hitler.<\/em> NEWS<\/em> is my protest song \u2014 a song not for the ears, but for the eyes. I hope that you will not be offended by the truth of it. This is not fake news!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNEWS<\/em> is available for purchase in a standard edition, as well as 500 hand-numbered and signed editions via Mitchell\u2019s website<\/a> and Julien\u2019s Publishing<\/a> (preorder begins Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. ET). Julien\u2019s will also host NEWS: Numbered, Signed & Personalize<\/em>d, an exclusive auction that offers book numbers one through 10. That auction lasts from Oct. 15 through Oct. 29, with all proceeds benefiting the ACLU, St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, Save The Children, and ASPCA.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSeparately, the paintings from NEWS <\/em>will be on display at the L.A. Louver gallery in Venice, California, on Oct. 29 and 30. <\/p>\n

\n\tNEWS<\/em> follows 2019\u2019s Morning Glory on the Vine<\/a><\/em>, a book of watercolor paintings, handwritten lyrics, and poems, titled after a line from Young\u2019s On the Beach<\/a><\/em>-era classic, \u201cMotion Pictures (For Carrie).\u201d Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of Mitchell\u2019s landmark album Hejira<\/em>; see where it landed on Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s new list of the 76 Best Albums of 1976.<\/a><\/p>\n

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