Yoko Ono has had to wait for some time for her first retrospective at the MoMA Museum of Modern Art. Back in 1971 several newspapers ran ads for a "one-woman show" which Ono was presenting at the museum. But the show was a no-go show.
Today, at the age of 82, her one-woman show opened at MoMa and it's a victory for an artist who was laughed at for too long.
One of her famous artwork is Cut Piece. She performed it twice in Japan back in 1964 where she sat alone on a stage with a pair of scissors and let audience snip off bits of her clothes one by one. And audience does it. Particularly one man who slices her blouse across exposing her bra. Facial expression doesn't change, only an arm goes up to keep her bra from falling. Victimized, but she is not showing.
Images via getty images Text Maria DeSilva