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The Rolling Stones just released their new album “Foreign Tongues” – and as always with Stones albums, the front cover is immediately noticeable. In “Sticky Fingers” it was Andy Warhol’s zipper, in “Some Girls” it was the advertising collage, in “Hackney Diamonds” it was the broken glass. This time: a painting, fragmented, a collage, cartoonish.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn: His trademark
The artwork comes from the American painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn – and he is anything but unknown. Quinn, born in Chicago in 1977, lives and works in Brooklyn. He is represented by the Gagosian and Almine Rech galleries, and his works hang in the Whitney Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the MOCA Los Angeles and the Hammer Museum, among others. His works regularly fetch six-figure sums at auctions.
His trademark are portraits that look like cut-up collages, but are actually painted entirely from oil, pastel, charcoal and gouache. Quinn assembles facial fragments from family photos, fashion magazines and Internet images into distorted figures. In art criticism, points of reference are regularly located in Francis Bacon, Cubism and Dada.
That’s what the artist himself says
Quinn says of the commission: “Designing the album cover for The Rolling Stones is an artistic honor – a dialogue with one of the most enduring forces in cultural history.”
Rolling Stones: Information about the new album
The new Rolling Stones album “Foreign Tongues” will be released on July 10, 2026. The band announced this on Tuesday evening. The pre-single is called “In the Stars”.
“The news you’ve all been waiting for!” write the Stones. “The Rolling Stones brand new studio album Foreign Tongues will be released on July 10 and is available to pre-order now on multiple formats. ‘Foreign Tongues’ captures The Rolling Stones sound you know and love – rooted in blues, country, rock and classic Stones songwriting. New single In The Stars streaming now.”
