{"id":7423,"date":"2016-08-31T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:30:53","slug":"pink-floyd-exhibit-to-open-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2016\/08\/pink-floyd-exhibit-to-open-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd exhibit to open in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mortal-remains-lg.jpg\"><\/a> Nick Mason announcing Their Mortal Remains outside the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, London\n<p><strong>&#8220;Their Mortal Remains,&#8221;<\/strong> a long-delayed exhibition devoted to <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>, will finally open in London next year.<\/p>\n<p>Containing more than 350 items, promoters describe the show as an &#8220;immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical journey&#8221; through the 50-year history of the band.<\/p>\n<p>Running May 13 to Oct. 1, 2017, at the <strong>Victoria &amp; Albert Museum<\/strong>, the show coincides with the 50th anniversary of Floyd&#8217;s debut 45 &#8220;Arnold Layne,&#8221; released in March 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> joined a flying pig outside the venue to announce the event today.<\/p>\n<p>Admission ranges from \u00a311 to \u00a357. <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.vam.ac.uk\/whatson\/index\/view\/id\/3555\/event\/Pink-Floyd--Their-Mortal-Remains\/dt\/2017-05-13\/free\/2\">Tickets can be purchased online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was originally to open in Milan in September 2014. But <strong>Evolve Devolve<\/strong>, the Italian promoter of the event, issued a statement a month before launch saying the complexity of the installation made it impossible for the company to meet the timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The London event, promoted by <strong>Michael Cohl<\/strong> and <strong>Iconic Entertainment Studios<\/strong>, has the involvement of all surviving members of the Floyd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/exhibitions\/pink-floyd\">Learn more about the event at the V&amp;A site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Facebook&#8217;s TwentyThree DrumHead for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Their Mortal Remains,&#8221; a long-delayed exhibition devoted to Pink Floyd, will finally open in London next year. Containing more than 350 items, promoters describe the show as an &#8220;immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical journey&#8221; through the 50-year history of the band. Running May 13 to Oct. 1, 2017, at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-nick-mason","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7435,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}