Downtown fashion brand BLK DNM turned a year old yesterday, and it has marked the occasion with a month-long, in-store installation titled Purple in 3D. For the project, a collaboration with Purple Fashion Magazine, BLK DNM’s Johan Lindeberg enlisted Purple’s Olivier Zahm to curate a collection of artworks.

This week the New Museum’s hotly anticipated triennial, The Ungovernables, opens to the public, featuring the work of thirty-four artists under forty. Luhring Augustine holds its inaugural show in its Bushwick location with two video installations by Charles Atlas. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, of the band Throbbing Gristle and more recently the subject of the acclaimed documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, has her second solo exhibition at Invisible-Exports.

FAM NYC, a new creative collective, launched the Exquisite Corpse Project last week with an opening exhibition at the old Essex Street Market in the Lower East Side. A nod to the Surrealist parlor game of the 1920s, The Exquisite Corpse Project presents a blind collaboration between thirty-three New York artists. Assigned to envision the top, middle, or bottom of a corpse, each artist created their own interpretation on 3×4 wood panels. Results ranged from literal—like the clean, cold portrait of feet that dangled ominously above the floor—to abstract, like the bright, green, geometric middle.

Enigmatic and in constant flux, human emotions are not easily grasped, let alone quantified. Yet, the French artist Maurice Benayoun endeavors to do precisely that for the sake of opening new ways of thinking about the world. He tracks worldwide emotional trends and catapults them into the spotlight, juxtaposing real human feelings with the monster known as the global financial system.

A concurrent homage to the past and future of the conurbation, Chris Burden’s Metropolis II (2011) alludes to no one specific region. The Eiffel Tower hugs a familiar Gehry-like building, which is adjacent to a geometric tower like those in Singapore or Dubai—but the automotive hub echoes the stressful, frenetic nature of the artist’s own locality.

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.