New exhibition announced celebrating Radiohead’s artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood

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Radiohead done by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood.The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford have announced the forthcoming exhibition from the Radiohead frontman and the band’s longtime artist Donwood, titled ‘This Is What You Get’.

It is slated to open in summer 2025.“This Is What You Get will be the first exhibition in a public gallery to bring together the visual work of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke”, the museum wrote on Instagram.“More than 120 works will be on display, including many of the paintings, drawings and digital art specifically created for Yorke’s internationally acclaimed band Radiohead, formed in Oxford in 1985.They added that the “multimedia” exhibition will feature “Donwood and Yorke’s unique collaborations that explore the complex relationship between visual art and music”, along with artwork from “1980s to the present day, including Radiohead album covers and promotional band images – as well as personal sketchbooks and notebooks never seen before in public.”Members of the museum will get free entry, whilst general sale tickets will commence in April 2025.A post shared by Ashmolean Museum (@ashmoleanmuseum)NME spoke to Donwood in 2022, where we asked him what about his work, was so spiritually bound to the music of Thom Yorke and Radiohead.

In response, Donwood replied: “I don’t know, Jesus! I don’t know anything about music, which might help. ‘I like the sound of that’ or ‘I don’t like the sound of that’ is about the limit of my musical understanding.“For a long time, Thom and I would work alongside each other or almost despite each other.

We’d work on the same thing for a while then we’d take turns on a picture. I’d usually win and take over and it became mine because he doesn’t have as much faith in his.