Radiohead has launched "Motion Picture House," an immersive audiovisual installation at Brooklyn Navy Yards in New York, on view through June. The exhibition draws from the band's albums *Kid A* (2000) and *Amnesiac* (2001), featuring glitching televisions, cryptic posters, stick-figure sculptures, and alien landscapes. It culminates in a 75-minute film, *KID A MNESIA*, directed by Sean Evans, originally released in 2021. The show debuted at Coachella Festival and will travel to Chicago, Mexico City, and San Francisco through early 2027.
The installation matters because it translates Radiohead's distinctive visual language—long central to the band's mystique—into a physical, walkable experience, reinforcing frontman Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood as significant visual artists. It follows their 2025 retrospective "This Is What You Get" at the Ashmolean Museum and concurrent gallery shows, highlighting how rock bands increasingly extend their creative universes into the fine art world, blurring boundaries between music and contemporary art.