Page 444 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

Design
The Financial Times lifts the lid on the Carbuncle Cup which celebrates the
absolute monstrosities of architecture.

None of those here though! No way! The 22 winners of the RIBA International
Awards have been announced.

Theatre & Dance
Tony Awards on Sunday. Deadline predicts who will win and who should win.

The top price tickets for West End shows are up by 9.3% year-on-year, according to a
survey by The Stage.

While Writers' Guild of Great Britain’s minimum wage for playwrights has increased by
4%.

Classical Music & Opera
Aldeburgh Festival’s outgoing CEO, Roger Wright, chats to The Guardian about his
festival highlights and classical music’s uncertain future.

Press, Books & Libraries
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein (which coincidentally I’m reading currently. Great book. 5*) is
the inaugural winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

Semafor on how AI search startup Perplexity has been planning revenue-sharing
deals with publishers while also getting heat for misusing content.

And, yeesh. Press Gazette examines how Google’s new AI overviews could potentially
have a ‘devastating’ impact on publishers.

Exhibitions and Events
Held every year since 1769 (which is roughly when this newsletter started), the Royal
Academy’s Summer Exhibition is up-and-running. Time Out picks its 10 faves.

Next Thursday’s edition of Christie’s Lates is dedicated to the life and legacy of Dame
Vivienne Westwood.

The Royal College of Arts’ postgraduate shows kick off on Thursday, too.

The UK’s longest-running Arab film festival, SAFAR, returns to London on 18 June and
runs until the end of the month.

This is very us. AI improvised theatre company Improbotics is touring, with robot co-hosts
and deep-faked audiences.