The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

The 2026 ceremony will be the first time in 53 years that the award for best album cover will be presented. Previously, the ...

Joy Feuer insists that she has always seen the sound of music and the images behind it as inseparable. From the looks of the crowds pouring into the Art of Music Experience at the Orange County Fair ...

The Grammy Awards album cover category has returned after more than five decades, finally recognising the visual artists ...

Gary Burden, who beginning in the late 1960s designed memorable album covers for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Doors and numerous other stars of rock and folk-rock, died March 7 in Los Angeles. He ...

Music is an experience, an intentional work of storytelling, and a means of expression that uses sound, lyricism and imagery to convey direct or underlying themes. The curated illustrations and ...

Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton ...

With the Grammys reviving a long-dormant category for album covers, visual artists and musicians talk about what it means to ...

There’s a story that album designer Gary Burden liked to tell about shooting the cover for the Doors’ 1970 classic Morrison Hotel. The manager from the eponymous hotel had refused to let the band ...

Here are ten striking record sleeves that caught our eye this year, featuring a racist caricature, an albino snake and a submissive pop star While it’s true that in the age of streaming the vast ...

"Art is the perpetual motion of illusion," Bob Dylan told Rolling Stone in 1978. "The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?" ...