Fair enough, and good point about it being positive for the connection to be from both sides.
I suspect that the case here is that the IA likes what MeB does (we are friends!), and sees archiving these images as a shared mission overall. But that at the end of the day they think of this as a MeB project, and have their hands full with their own.
You could nudge them to see if they want to add some kind of browsing from their end?
Hmm, MB isn’t primarily a image browsing site (not saying that’s not a possibility), so I can only offer this useful script:
This will display thumbnails next to releases on an artist page, as well as in a release group. Clicking the cover image takes you straight to the images.
I’ve also mocked up a large cover art grid display for an eventual Artist Page redesign, which you can see in the figma project. (this redesign would also integrate the Funkey Illustrated Records script functionality, as well as being able to expand release groups without leaving the artist page)
@Intergalactic.fm also left some suggestions heading in this direction in the Release Page Redesign thread, which I thought cluttered the display too much. You may have good ideas for this could be integrated in a way that works for you, without distracting from the other information?
p.s. this seems like yet another opportunity to bump the event art archive ticket, which the IA did their end of back in 2016 