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Photo by William Nettles/©Yoko Ono

Long before she had 15,000 Pitchfork Music Festival attendees declaring their love for her via mini-flashlight signals last summer, and even before she was shrieking like a possessed dolphin on record, Yoko Ono made her name known in the international art world.

Ono's artsy endeavors span from her involvement with the Fluxus movement in the 1960s to her performance art-tinged work with the Plastic Ono Band in the 1970s, and on through the present day-- and the present is what we're here to discuss today.

Or, more precisely, the future: Tomorrow, April 18, Yoko Ono will open an exhibit at New York City's Galerie Lelong entitled "touch me". The show collects all manner of paintings, films, photographs, and sculptures-- including the unsettling pair of heels pictured above-- that, as the press release puts it, "comment on different facets of the female experience, calling upon the viewers to make direct and deeply personal connections."

Those viewers can connect with plenty of provocative stuff, including a couple interactive pieces: a massive canvas with openings intended for gallerygoers' appendages, and a collection of cameras with which the art-minded may take their pictures.

"touch me" runs through May 31.