Pink Floyd Fly Inflatable Pig Over London Museum to Announce New Exhibit

This morning, Pink Floyd flew an inflatable pig over London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to announce their new, career retrospective exhibition, “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains.” The stunt harks back to the cover of their 1977 album Animals, where a pig is seen soaring over Battersea Power Station. As the BBC points out, “Their Mortal Remains” follows the successful “David Bowie Is…” exhibition, which ran at the V&A through spring and fall 2013. The “immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical” new show, which marks 50 years since Pink Floyd’s debut single, will include 350 items of band ephemera—instruments, posters, handwritten lyrics, artwork, and more. They’ll be housed within an exhibit featuring a laser light show and unearthed concert footage. It’ll run from May to October next year.

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— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) August 31, 2016

V&A director Martin Roth said:

The V&A is perfectly placed to exhibit the work of a band that is as recognisable for its unique visual imagery as for its music. Pink Floyd is an impressive and enduring British design story of creative success. Alongside creating extraordinary music, they have for over five decades been pioneers in uniting sound and vision, from their earliest 1960s performances with experimental light shows, through their spectacular stadium rock shows, to their consistently iconic album covers. The exhibition will locate them within the history of performance, design and musical production by presenting and complementing the material from Pink Floyd’s own archive with the V&A’s unrivalled collections in architecture, design, graphics and literature.

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