“The Sheriff” from Moments of the Unknown Paintings by Justin Aversano
“The Sheriff” from Moments of the Unknown Paintings by Justin Aversano
“The Sheriff” from Moments of the Unknown Paintings by Justin Aversano
Justin Aversano Opens Seven-Floor Exhibition in Greenwich Village
Artist Justin Aversano opened Enter Through the Thrift Shop on November 11, 2026, across all seven floors of 60–62 East 11th Street in New York. Co-curated with Viktoria Nagibina, the exhibition runs through November 26 and brings together 366 paintings, Super 8 film, Polaroids, sound, and generative media. Its centerpiece, Moments of the Unknown, draws on Aversano's 2023–2024 project of filming a different person in a different city each day. The building dates to 1895 and was home to photographic-supply company Scovill & Adams, and visitors enter through Bijan Royal Antiques, an operating shop. The exhibition is artist-initiated and was realized without a gallery or museum, and private tours are available by request.
Moments of the Unknown: Enter Through the Thrift Shop Curated by @justinaversano and @ViktoriaNagibi1 November 11 - 26, 2026 60 - 62 East 11th Street, New York Opening Wednesday, November 11, 11:11AM - 8 PM; reception 5-8 PM Enter through the Thrift Shop, an artist-initiated exhibition by Justin Aversano, co-curated with Viktoria Nagibina, opens on November 11, 2026, across all seven floors of 60-62 East 11th Street in Greenwich Village. Bringing together 366 paintings, Super 8 film, Polaroids, sound, and generative media, the exhibition follows a year of encounters across seven continents in an ascent from past to present to future. The building is not a backdrop but a participant: its nineteenth-century photographic history is set in direct relation to contemporary ways of making, circulating, and preserving images. The exhibition took shape by chance. In June 2026, Aversano and Nagibina moved their studio into the building and only afterward learned that it had been built in 1895 as the headquarters of Scovill & Adams, the photographic-supply company and publisher of The Photographic Times, at a time when the blocks south of Union Square were among the world’s centers of photographic production. Aversano was then completing the 366 paintings, with no site yet determined for their presentation. Initiated and funded by the artist, who has reinvested the proceeds of his work in the space and its production, the exhibition is realized without gallery, museum, or outside financial support, proposing a model in which an artist builds the conditions for his own public presentation. Visitors enter through Bijan Royal Antiques, an operating store run by its owner since 1965 and the last of the antique dealers that once lined the street. The entrance gives the exhibition its title, and sculptures from the shop reappear on the floors above, placing historical representations of the human figure beside Aversano’s contemporary portraits. At the center of the exhibition is Moments of the Unknown, a three-part work on time, memory, and human connection that unfolds as The Past, The Present, and The Future. Its source is Aversano’s uninterrupted journey of 2023–2024, during which he filmed a different person in a different city every day on Super 8. Over the year that followed, he released one ten-second portrait a day and wrote a journal entry for each encounter, returning to it a year later to the day. Extending a lineage of serial, time-bound practice in which a fixed daily rule gives form to chance, the project brings these recorded encounters into dialogue with Polaroid photography and generative processes, and considers how images preserve individual lives while shaping a collective picture of humanity. Each of the three installations gives the recorded encounters a different temporal form: reversed and prolonged, unfolding in real time, or transformed into an imagined identity. The paintings carry this inquiry into material and process. Each begins with a single frame extracted from the footage and processed through AI image generation to clarify its forms for silkscreen. Color is painted by hand, one layer at a time, before a final black silkscreen completes the image. Every work has its own screen, and the variations produced in printing remain without correction: the process establishes a structure while admitting the effects of chance. An augmented reality application reconnects each canvas with its source footage, returning the still image to motion. 🧵1/2— justinaversano (@justinaversano) November 9, 2026
Moments of the Unknown: Enter Through the Thrift Shop Curated by @justinaversano and @ViktoriaNagibi1 November 11 - 26, 2026 60 - 62 East 11th Street, New York Opening Wednesday, November 11, 11:11AM - 8 PM; reception 5-8 PM Enter through the Thrift Shop, an artist-initiated exhibition by Justin Aversano, co-curated with Viktoria Nagibina, opens on November 11, 2026, across all seven floors of 60-62 East 11th Street in Greenwich Village. Bringing together 366 paintings, Super 8 film, Polaroids, sound, and generative media, the exhibition follows a year of encounters across seven continents in an ascent from past to present to future. The building is not a backdrop but a participant: its nineteenth-century photographic history is set in direct relation to contemporary ways of making, circulating, and preserving images. The exhibition took shape by chance. In June 2026, Aversano and Nagibina moved their studio into the building and only afterward learned that it had been built in 1895 as the headquarters of Scovill & Adams, the photographic-supply company and publisher of The Photographic Times, at a time when the blocks south of Union Square were among the world’s centers of photographic production. Aversano was then completing the 366 paintings, with no site yet determined for their presentation. Initiated and funded by the artist, who has reinvested the proceeds of his work in the space and its production, the exhibition is realized without gallery, museum, or outside financial support, proposing a model in which an artist builds the conditions for his own public presentation. Visitors enter through Bijan Royal Antiques, an operating store run by its owner since 1965 and the last of the antique dealers that once lined the street. The entrance gives the exhibition its title, and sculptures from the shop reappear on the floors above, placing historical representations of the human figure beside Aversano’s contemporary portraits. At the center of the exhibition is Moments of the Unknown, a three-part work on time, memory, and human connection that unfolds as The Past, The Present, and The Future. Its source is Aversano’s uninterrupted journey of 2023–2024, during which he filmed a different person in a different city every day on Super 8. Over the year that followed, he released one ten-second portrait a day and wrote a journal entry for each encounter, returning to it a year later to the day. Extending a lineage of serial, time-bound practice in which a fixed daily rule gives form to chance, the project brings these recorded encounters into dialogue with Polaroid photography and generative processes, and considers how images preserve individual lives while shaping a collective picture of humanity. Each of the three installations gives the recorded encounters a different temporal form: reversed and prolonged, unfolding in real time, or transformed into an imagined identity. The paintings carry this inquiry into material and process. Each begins with a single frame extracted from the footage and processed through AI image generation to clarify its forms for silkscreen. Color is painted by hand, one layer at a time, before a final black silkscreen completes the image. Every work has its own screen, and the variations produced in printing remain without correction: the process establishes a structure while admitting the effects of chance. An augmented reality application reconnects each canvas with its source footage, returning the still image to motion. 🧵1/2
NODE Opens Applications for WHATIF Residency in New York
NODE introduced WHATIF, a five-month, in-person residency at NODE Studio NYC for artists, technologists, scientists, writers, researchers, and other creative thinkers exploring new directions in digital art. Residents receive a $5,000 monthly stipend ($25,000 total), a shared studio with access to the production and prototyping tools used at NODE's Palo Alto flagship, and a NODE-funded trip to Palo Alto. In return, residents host an event for the NODE community, take part in a closing showcase, and join weekly office hours with the NODE team. Applications are due December 10, 2026. Learn more about WHATIF.
NODE is proud to introduce WHATIF: a five-month residency at NODE Studio NYC for exploring new possibilities in digital art. Includes a $25,000 stipend, access to our NODE Studio NYC space, and a trip to Palo Alto. Application deadline December 10th. https://t.co/6QKcgygokd— NODE (@nodefnd) November 12, 2026
NODE is proud to introduce WHATIF: a five-month residency at NODE Studio NYC for exploring new possibilities in digital art. Includes a $25,000 stipend, access to our NODE Studio NYC space, and a trip to Palo Alto. Application deadline December 10th. https://t.co/6QKcgygokd
Masnah Unveils This Is Not a CryptoPunk at NODE Studio NYC
Artist Masnah unveiled This Is Not a CryptoPunk, a large-format responsive painting presented by , on November 10, 2026 at NODE Studio NYC. Masnah is a longtime member of the Punk community and a NODE Fall 2026 resident artist. The evening included a talk on archives and technology and a conversation on who counts as a Punk, moderated by Judy Mam.
NODE has more programming ahead. NODE Palo Alto will host a weekly rotation of exhibitions, talks, workshops, and special events from November 14 through December 20, 2026, after running one major exhibition per season so far. The schedule begins with NEORT: Cities as Nodes on November 14–15 and Grant Yun: Sections on November 19–22. Operator's Act III live screening follows on November 21, Occupy runs November 27–29 and December 18–20, and the Human in the Loop hackathon takes place December 4–6. From December 10 to 13, NODE hosts a takeover by Botto, a decentralized autonomous artist, including an artist talk on December 13 with Mario Klingemann, who conceived Botto in 2018.
Visa Adds Western Union's USDPT Stablecoin as a VisaNet Settlement Option
Anchorage Digital announced on November 12, 2026 that Visa and eligible partners can now settle VisaNet obligations using USDPT, a U.S. dollar stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank for Western Union. Anchorage is supporting select stablecoins it issues as native settlement assets on Visa's network, starting with USDPT, and the companies are creating a framework to consider additional Anchorage-issued stablecoins. USDPT launched on Solana in May 2026, and Western Union plans to use it for round-the-clock settlement across its network in more than 200 countries.
Kinetiq Launches Elysium, a Layer 2 Network Built for the Hyperliquid Ecosystem
Kinetiq launched the Elysium mainnet on November 9, 2026. Elysium is a general-purpose Layer 2 built on the Arbitrum Platform. It settles to HyperEVM and runs alongside HyperCore, Hyperliquid's core infrastructure. Because it uses standard Arbitrum software, developers can deploy Solidity and Vyper contracts without changes. The network targets 100-millisecond blocks and 300 million gas per second, and Conduit operates its sequencer.
Elysium mainnet is now live. https://t.co/svpWTVntyn https://t.co/Fx1rGAQBfs— Elysium (@Enter_Elysium) November 9, 2026
Elysium mainnet is now live. https://t.co/svpWTVntyn https://t.co/Fx1rGAQBfs
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