fondazionepaolini.it
Founded in 2004 by Giulio Paolini and his wife Anna Piva, the Turin foundation holds the artist’s archives from the early 1960s on (“catalogues, books, periodicals, press releases, invitations, photographs, letters”) and publishes the catalogue raisonné of every work from 1960 to the present as open access online, after the print edition stopped at two volumes in 2008. Paolini, born in Genoa in 1940 and a fixture of Arte Povera and four Documentas, is currently in a Saffo group show at the Colosseum’s Uccelliere Farnesiane through January 2027.
reuters.com
Four justices recused without explanation. That left the Court one short of a quorum, so the 5th Circuit's ruling stands by default. Songwriter Cyril Vetter used US termination rights to take back "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" and is now "sole owner of all right, title and interest throughout the world." BMG, Sony, Universal and Warner, which bought into the song after losing in the appeals court, say the ruling "unsettled 50 years of industry practice." It sets no national precedent, but it gives artists in the 5th Circuit a path to reclaim foreign rights as well as US ones.
nyc.gov
NYC is "increasing the size of city-funded grants for artists, from a previous maximum of $5,000 to up to $10,000," the first raise in nearly two decades. The city doesn't pay artists directly. The money is re-granted through five borough partners, each with its own rules and deadlines: Bronx Council on the Arts (Oct 30), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Nov 12), NYFA's Queens Arts Fund (Nov 17), and Staten Island Arts (opens in November). Brooklyn Arts Council's deadline was Oct 11 and has already passed.
warren.senate.gov
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's report argues that DOJ and the FTC waved through large mergers over career-staff objections. It also says they settled cases for small fines and behavioral promises, with no admission of wrongdoing. Its pay-to-play charge rests on merger beneficiaries giving millions to Trump political committees. That shows a pattern in the timing, not proof of a trade. The best-documented case is HPE-Juniper, where senior officials reportedly overruled antitrust chief Gail Slater.
webdev.teknium.io
'425 web libraries and components with a strong point of view: dithered shaders, text laid out without the DOM, Windows 98 as a stylesheet, hand-drawn charts, live-coded synths.' Every card runs the real library live, with zero CDN requests. It's a side project from Teknium, cofounder of Nous Research. It's a catalogue, not a review, so it says nothing about which libraries are maintained.
pluralistic.net
Doctorow, who usually fights the Copyright Office, backs its AI position: copyright "exists to incentivize human acts of creative expression," not to protect investment. The monkey-selfie rule applies, and "an algorithm is even less human than a monkey." The practical consequence is the interesting part: "If a firm uses some AI in its work, it's going to need to document that very carefully. Basically, we're about to recreate formalities, but managed by the private sector." Berne abolished registration, deposit, and notice, which "created a universe of orphan works." AI-era copyright brings formalities back through the side door, with the record-keeping burden landing on the companies that use AI, not on artists.