This week in New York, the Pace Gallery presents Happenings: New York 1958-1963, an exhibition chronicling five years of experimental performances that radically changed the course of contemporary art. Over three hundred photographs by five photographers feature major contributors to the movement such as Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg.

Though Juergen Teller is best known for his longstanding association with Marc Jacobs and other fashion labels, he makes no distinction between his commercial and fine art photography. An exhibition of recent work by Teller opens at Lehmann Maupin’s Chrystie Street gallery on Friday, February 10. If Teller’s style by now looks unremarkable, that’s because he helped invent the ubiquitous raw, documentary aesthetic that owes so much to Nan Goldin’s snapshots. Glamour becomes more believable, more alluring, when mixed with off-the-cuff awkwardness or abjection.

Every year dozens of new galleries pop up and many close, often in their second year. After a year and a half in NYC at a beautiful dual-level space on Rivington in the Lower East Side, DODGE Gallery is already a neighborhood establishment after several well-received shows in a row and the terrific current exhibition of work by Michael Zelehoski and Daniel Phillips. We talked to owner Kristen Dodge about making the move from Boston and settling into the LES.

Few artists have used mapping as an artistic practice to the effect that Mark Bradford has, weaving the visual and social landscapes of urban societies into the layers of his collage paintings. These paintings, along with works in sculpture and video, will be displayed at a joint exhibition held by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts beginning February 18. This exhibition is a traveling survey of Bradford’s work organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Winter getting you down? Escape NYC this week in Flux Factory’s utopian village, also known as Banquet for America. A group of conceptual and performance artists will inhabit a mock village for the week and explore the ritual and communal aspects of the banquet table in their town square. At Salon 94 Bowery, Jon Kessler’s multimedia installation The Blue Period explores the pitfalls of a consumerist society mediated by technology. Cameras throughout the exhibition will display both live and prerecorded footage, blurring reality and artifice.

Los Angeles is not slowing down its effort to make known its growth as a global capital for contemporary art. On the contrary, with Pacific Standard Time programming in full swing, four art fairs: Photo L.A., the L.A. Art Show, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and the Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles graced our city during the month of January.

ARTLOG thrives on the contributions of its incredible community of art lovers, gallerists, museum professionals, and artists who make their work accessible. There are now over one thousand galleries and museums worldwide that manage their profiles on ARTLOG and many more thousands of artists and art lovers who submit shows to us. However, we have heard over and over from our readers that there is so much more outside of art fairs, festivals, and New York City.

Recent exhibitions are revealing a seeming divergence in what art is intended for. On the one hand, there are Damien Hirst spot paintings scattered throughout Larry Gagosian’s global franchise in a spectacular staging of world domination through art—a show/ploy that sits tentatively on the fine line between art and pure marketing. On the other, smaller arts organizations like the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts zeroes in on socially relevant issues and promotes art as activism through programs and exhibitions, such as their current Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship (on view January 27 through March 10). It then came as a pleasant surprise to discover what MoMA has in store for the next few months.