Yoko Ono covers the May issue of W Magazine May 2015, in advance of her MOMA show, open May 17-September 7, 2015. Yoko takes her shears to model Vlada Roslyakova, styled by Felicia Garcia Rivera with black and white images by Pari Dukovic./ Makeup by Georgi Sandev; hair by Tamara McNaughton

The editorial commemorate Ono’s most famous work from the early ’60s, the violent and erotic ‘Cut Piece’ (1964) in which the artist knelt on stage and invited the audience to come up and snip the clothes off her body with tailor’s shears.