NODE Opens a Studio in SoHo
NODE, the nonprofit home of the CryptoPunks, opened a new Studio in SoHo this weekend with a Punks Brunch, a live performance and a public open house.
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Refik Anadol: Dataland Gets an AI Guide
Refik Anadol's Dataland launched an app with an AI guide after hosting more than 50,000 visitors, capping a month that brought a TIME100 Art nod and a new work at Meta Connect.
Nullish: Event Horizon and the Nullish Passport
Nullish rebuilt Jean-Pierre Luminet's hand-drawn 1978 black hole in p5.js for Event Horizon, 1,000 audiovisual pieces on block 9 sats.
Grant Yun: From PowerPoint Shapes to SPACES
Grant Yun went from PowerPoint shapes and medical school to Neo-Precisionism, Primera with Andrew Mitchell and SPACES, and is now teasing one of his most ambitious projects yet.
Rare Scrilla: DJPEPE Turns Ten
Rare Scrilla's DJPEPE card turns ten on October 13, with 39 subassets that make it a mini gallery within the card itself.
Lillian Schwartz: Bell Labs, Pixillation and the Face of the Mona Lisa
Lillian Schwartz went from a kinetic globe at MoMA to decades at Bell Labs, where she made Pixillation with Ken Knowlton and used a computer to argue that the Mona Lisa hides Leonardo's own face.
Jonas Lund: Most Valuable Painting Reaches Its Final Generations on Feral File
Jonas Lund completes MVP (Most Valuable Painting), the self-optimizing painting project that had sat at Generation 450 since 2022, in a Feral File solo exhibition.
Andrea Belloni: A Homage to Herbert W. Franke, Written in Code
Physicist and generative artist Andrea Belloni is building Homage To Herbert W. Franke, a tribute recognized by the Foundation Herbert W. Franke, ahead of the pioneer's centenary year in 2027.
Twenty Years to Draw: Harold Cohen's AARON
Long before text prompts, the painter Harold Cohen spent decades teaching a program called AARON to draw, then to paint.
RalenArc: ScatterForm Arrives as a Featured OpenSea Drop
RalenArc releases ScatterForm, a 300-piece generative collection drawn from fabric, stone and painted surfaces, as a featured OpenSea drop on October 8.
Paweł Dudko: Lapse Sells on objkt, With a Way Onto Bitcoin
Paweł Dudko's Lapse, a scroll-driven generative work that slowly fades to black or white, found a collector in the Searching for Balance auction on objkt and carries a teleburn route to a 1/1 Ordinals inscription.
Dmitri Cherniak: Hummingbirds, Lions and Color Types From a New Algorithm
Dmitri Cherniak is sharing a new run of algorithmic drawings in green, blue and red color types, alongside a live browser version of Ringers in Motion.
OKAYAMAN: SILKROAD Comes to His First Solo Show
OKAYAMAN's first solo exhibition opens November 14 at ONE DAY COFFEE in Hachioji, and his SILKROAD series is coming with it.
Hoizon: Slightly Wrong Sells Out on SuperRare
Hoizon's Slightly Wrong, a collection of 100 animated loops on SuperRare, sold out on October 5, five days after its October 1 launch.
Sasha Stiles: Poems After Jangar at Sapar Contemporary
Sasha Stiles turns the Kalmyk-Mongolian epic Jangar into scrolls, encoded beadwork and code in her first show at Sapar Contemporary in New York, on view through November 6.
Trapped on Floppies: Warhol's Amiga Experiments
In 1985 Andy Warhol painted Debbie Harry live on a Commodore Amiga. Almost 30 years later, Cory Arcangel helped pull 28 lost Warhol images off his floppy disks.
Maya Man: StarQuest Takes the Stage at the V&A
Maya Man brings StarQuest, her performance-lecture on competition dance and AI, to the V&A in London on October 10, as her net art work Pure Information sells for $20,000.
Kevin Abosch: Testing Ground Opens TAEX Monaco
Kevin Abosch's Testing Ground, computational landscapes that look photographic but depict places that do not exist on a map, opens TAEX's new Monaco gallery on October 9.
An Empty Wall: Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha
Nam June Paik’s most famous video sculpture started as a gap-filler: a Buddha watching itself on a closed-circuit TV at Galeria Bonino in 1974.
Time Runs Backward: OTO’s Polylith
OTO's Polylith reads Bitcoin from a far future block back toward Genesis, a generative Ordinals work that updates with every new block.
We Are Not in Kansas Anymore: Hafftka on Bitcoin
Michael Hafftka, whose paintings sit in MoMA and the Met, keeps inscribing new work on Bitcoin, including We Are Not in Kansas Anymore in March 2026.
Pindar Van Arman: Emergence to Reflection at ./spiral
At SuperRare's ./spiral in New York, Pindar Van Arman condensed his AI Portrait series into Emergence to Reflection, a triptych spanning 2018 to 2024.
Justin Aversano: 366 Paintings Ahead of a November Opening
Justin Aversano has silkscreened 366 paintings and is hanging his hand-painted photographs on canvas ahead of a November opening.
Recursions: Early Ordinals, Cut Into Collage
Billy Restey's Recursions turns early Ordinals inscriptions into 300 abstract collages, each a tiny recursive file on Bitcoin.
The Idea Becomes a Machine: Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings
In 1967 Sol LeWitt wrote that the idea becomes a machine that makes the art — then handed wall drawings to other hands.
The Wild Within: Soviet Postcard Flowers, Cut in Glass
Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell's first New York solo show at Leila Heller Gallery debuts Fragments, twelve glass mosaics of the Soviet-era flower postcards that started The Wild Within.
The Only Seven-Trait CryptoPunk Changes Hands
CryptoPunk #8348, the only Punk with seven attributes, sold today for 3,000,000 USDC plus an undisclosed amount on GONDI, ending Seedphrase's six-year hold.
HAHA by the Block: Burst in Linz
Burst’s TIMESTAMPS | HAHA Blocks hangs in the Francisco Carolinum’s first full showing of its blockchain collection, built on Bitcoin blocks picked by the numbers in HAHA.
Onchain at Beaubourg: The Pompidou’s Digital Art Committee
The Centre Pompidou launches a five-year Digital Art Committee of French and international patrons, with particular attention to onchain works and new forms of generative art.
Non Finito, Chapter Three: Costo Bravo Heads Into the Darkroom
Costo Bravo's Non Finito series reaches its third chapter, In Development: a darkroom engine, his own film negatives, and prints that are never meant to be finished.
Your Money Is Melting: Harto Teases Inflation
Harto is building toward something called Inflation: 24 flower-titled works, a pixel banknote, and a teaser that ends on 100 YEARS · 100 DAYS.
Seize the Screens: Empress Trash from Mexico City to Montreal
From an immersive comet in Mexico City to curating a team at RGBMTL in Montreal, Empress Trash closes out a busy 2026 with a work in the Francisco Carolinum Linz collection.
CRYPTOART/NFTS ARE BACK!: ROBNESS Remixes Gibberish on SuperRare
ROBNESS minted an artificial remix of Celentano’s gibberish classic into ROBNESS TELEVISION on SuperRare — reserve auction closed at 0.14 ETH to @cobotica.
Pixels as Tokens: Kim Asendorf’s PXL
From PXL DEX to POD and NET — and a Duo Pod turn at Art Basel Hong Kong — Kim Asendorf treats the pixel as both image unit and utility token.
Appetite and Refusal: Rothko’s Seagram Murals
Mark Rothko took a $35,000 Four Seasons commission, painted rooms meant to close in — then walked away after one meal. A short note on color-field power and refusal.
Letters, Tapes, and the Shape of a Legacy
Van Gogh’s letters and Warhol’s taped voice did more than decorate biographies — they framed how we still read the work. A short note on context, and why artists keep leaving a trail beside the art.
Secondary Heat on Ord_Net — Fish Gospel and a Late-September Run
Artifishal’s Fish Gospel hit Droop House mid-month; by late September Ord_Net was moving Thermal Forks, Megastructures, Zoe Louise, and a cluster of Sepim_art originals — with public BTC figures from ord.net.
Credits from $8: Jack Butcher’s X Money Open Edition
Jack Butcher’s Credits turns each eligible $8 X Money payment into a CMYK grid artwork — early public counts are provisional, while Statement assembly and the 1,526 cap are locked in the project rules.
PeePs on Bitcoin: EP and the Recursive Artist
Elia Pieraccini’s PeePs is an Ordinals-native artist entity that learns through recursion — collectors as DAO custodians of a practice that only exists on-chain.
Noema in Taipei: Paweł Dudko at Huashan 1914
Paweł Dudko’s Noema is on view in an immersive digital gallery at Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei — a physical chapter for work that lives in the light between architecture and image.
The Architecture of Light: Paweł Dudko
Architecture, code, and light stay tightly bound in Paweł Dudko's practice, from Art Blocks and Bitcoin inscriptions to 3D printing and spatial installation.
Cannot Be Erased: Michael Hafftka and the Art of Permanence
Michael Hafftka didn't come to Bitcoin as an experiment. He came as an artist with four decades of institutional weight behind him — and a clear argument about what lasts.
Mining the Archive: Rare Scrilla and the Bitcoin-Native Art Lineage
Rare Scrilla's practice is less about making new images than about insisting on where images belong — arguing, through every inscription, that Bitcoin was always a cultural substrate, not merely a financial one.
Taste Is the New Skill: Claire Silver and the Aesthetics of Co-Agency
Claire Silver reframes AI art as co-agency rather than automation, where authorship emerges from taste, constraint, and the irreducible decisions of a human artist.
The Aesthetics of Deleted Worlds: Robness and the Radical Ontology of Trash Art
By weaponizing the "right to be deleted" and reclaiming the aesthetics of digital waste, Robness didn't just break the rules of crypto art—he rewrote the contract of ownership itself.
The Relentless: Beeple
Mike Winkelmann didn't just sell a JPEG for $69 million; he showed up every single day for 15 years.
The Intentionality of Process: William Mapan and the Painterly Code
William Mapan weaponizes the algorithm to reveal the 'humanness' behind the screen, bridging artificial precision with human emotion.
The Logic of the Interface: Francisco Alarcón (FAR) and the Post-Photographic Condition
From the latent spaces of early GANs to the recursive physics of Bitcoin, Francisco Alarcón (FAR) interrogates the technical apparatus behind the digital image.
Empire of Static: XCOPY and Right Click Save
From the digital slums of Tumblr to the white cubes of Art Basel, XCOPY has weaponized the glitch, forcing the art world to stare into the strobe-light of the blockchain.
Art House of the Rebellion: The Counterfeit Culture Archive
Counterfeit Culture is one of the earliest and most influential forces in the Ordinals ecosystem, championing 'Art on Bitcoin' as a rallying cry.
The Drifter’s Code: Tracking Lemonhaze Across the Globe
Lemonhaze is the art world’s digital nomad—leaving breadcrumbs from Montreal to Saigon.
The Immutable Confessional: Lemonhaze and the Phenomenology of On-Chain Memory
Lemonhaze treats the blockchain as a 'message in a bottle'—archiving not just art, but the raw, messy human experience.
Fabled x Lemonhaze: Art on Bitcoin
The full transcript of the conversation with Sophia Spirlock from @fabled_btc.