Yoko Ono's Cut Piece

Yoko Ono in an original work she created for the cover of W Art, May 2015. Photographed by Pari Dukovic.

Yoko Ono reimagining her 1964 performance of Cut Piece for W.

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Yoko Ono reimagining her 1964 performance of Cut Piece for W.

Yoko Ono reimagining her 1964 performance of Cut Piece for W.

Yoko Ono reimagining her 1964 performance of Cut Piece for W.

The ad for Museum of Modern [F]art, 1971. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York.

Bag Piece, 1964, performed in 1965. Courtesy of George Maciunas/The Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift.

At her first solo gallery show, in 1961 in New York, with Painting to See in the Dark (Version 1), 1961. Courtesy of George Maciunas/The Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift.

George Maciunas’s photograph of the artist with Works by Yoko Ono, 1961, her poster for a concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. Courtesy of George Maciunas/The Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift.

Stills from Film No. 4 (Bottoms), 1966–67. Courtesy of the artist.

Ono with her work Half-a-Room, 1967, at Lisson Gallery, London. Photograph by Clay Perry/courtesy of the artist.

Grapefruit, 1964. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift.

Ono performing Cut Piece, 1964, at Carnegie Recital Hall, in 1965. Photograph by Minoru Niizuma/Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York.

Ono and John Lennon’s War Is Over! If You Want It, 1969. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift.