Squaring the Circle – the story of HIPGNOSIS

Squaring the Circle - the story of HIPGNOSIS
Squaring the Circle – the story of HIPGNOSIS, the new documentary by Anton Corbijn about the story of HIPGNOSIS is meeting with euphoric audiences at the Sundance Festival and wowing film critics across the US. It tells the story of HIPGNOSIS, the visionary creators of ingenious album cover art, Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson, who
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On the death of Aldona Gustas – Send me an apple from the afterlife

Farbfoto von Aldona Gustas, vor dem Ausstellungsbanner Berliner Malerpoeten. Pulsierendes Leben. Pulsierender Tod. Foto: John Colton
On December 8, 2022, Lithuanian poet and graphic artist Aldona Gustas passed away in Berlin-Kreuzberg. We will miss her very much. Bright and cold, the full moon stands high in the Berlin sky on this Thursday evening shortly after eight. Inside in the warm parlor, Berlin painter and poet Aldona Gustas has returned what was
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Of transience and the love of lithography – 50 years of Berliner Malerpoeten in Solnhofen

Schwarz-Weiß Foto von Hans Joachim Zeidler - © Dietmar Bührer
We will continue to celebrate 50 years of Berliner Malerpoeten (Painter Poets) from September 3 to November 6, 2022 with a new exhibition – in the south of the Republic, at the Museum of Earth History, Lithography and Stone Mining in Solnhofen – otherwise world famous for its fossil of the prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx. Without
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HIPGNOSIS Album Cover Art – Time for Dreams at the Museum of Contemporary Art Ottobeuren

Pink Floyd, Wish You were here, Album Cover Design by HIPGNOSIS,
As if the large-scale rooms of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Diether Kunerth, kept in matter of cool  raw concrete, were made especially for it, the album cover art of HIPGNOSIS unfolds here what constitutes its magic and power at its core and for which it became world-famous: It inspires dreaming with surreal epic
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