Page 443 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

14 June 2024

Editor: Alex Pleasants

Government Stuff

Museums Association compares and contrasts the party manifestos when it comes to
culture.

At London Tech Week, Shadow Digital Secretary Peter Kyle laid out Labour’s plans
for toughening AI regulations and a national data library.

And UKTN digs into what the Tories have planned for technology, from an R&D funding
boost to compute clusters.

Culture Stuff

Arts & Culture
Total arts investment from UK national funding bodies has fallen by 16% in real terms
since 2017, according to Equity research.

A Scottish gallery is the latest to drop Baillie Gifford funding and Richard Osman points
out how it will kill book festivals. Edinburgh Fringe is sticking with them.

With that in mind, The Times rightly asks where arts funding will come from if sponsors are
driven away.

Artist Anya Gallaccio has been chosen to design London's first permanent Aids
memorial.

Eeek! Reunion! Two sunflower paintings by van Gogh are to be reunited for the first
time since 1889 at the National Gallery this year.

Degree courses like media studies actually have a ‘profound impact’ on the economy and
society, according to a British Academy report. Cc. Rishi Sunak.

Curveball. An AI photo contest was won by a real photo from a real photographer (who then
got disqualified and dragged out by robots. Astonishing).