How to hide album artwork on iTunes?

To expand on tt2's post,

1. Select the Songs View from the Sidebar.
2. From the top bar menu, select View/Column Browser/Show Column Browser if it's not already there
3. Select View/Column Browser>Albums to display the Albums list (with no artwork)

Now - when you select an album in the Albums column (3.), the Songs area (4.) will show only the songs from that album - no artwork.

If you do not select a particular album, you can also get the Songs area (4.) to sort by Album or Album by Artist, among other options. Again, no artwork.

12.6.2.20

If you view as list or grid you get two different options but neither lets you choose to show album artwork anymore and it would be really nice to remove it if possible so we can again see more songs on the screen like we did before.

Artwork isn't optional in the Grid view. It is after all a view explicitly designed to let you choose albums by browsing through the album art collection. In the Songs or other list based views you can use the menu item View > Show View Options (Ctrl+J) at the top of which are options to control artwork.

tt2

Artwork display is controlled in iTunes > View menu > Show View Options > uncheck Show Artwork and Always Show.

View Options does not give me "Show Artwork" nor "Always Show", only show variable Size of album picture.

What build of iTunes are you running, on what platform? Those artwork options show for me in the songs view with iTunes 12.5.1.21 on Windows 7/64.

tt2