Few contemporary artists have the opportunity to show alongside one of their historical inspirations—especially when he is a master of Impressionist sculpture—but British artist Rachel Kneebone is fortunate. Her show of porcelain works which opened last night at the Brooklyn Museum is dotted with (and in fact outnumbered by) Auguste Rodin bronzes, and this is only the artist’s first museum presentation.

Few artists use obscure materials such as Zebra Cakes, fish tanks, and keychains with such lyrical efficacy as the Baltimore-based duo DUOX, a collaboration between Malcolm Lomax and Daniel Wickerham. Their installations often aim to implicate viewers through their movement or interaction and focus on a queer sensibility and a digital context.

Please join Artlog and our friends at Thrillist for this special Art and Wine Crawl on Saturday, February 4, from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. This tour through the Bowery neighborhood includes special talks with artists and gallery owners, wine and beer, and an after party at Gallery Bar on Orchard Street from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

This week is a good time to catch some of the fantastic lecture and performance series at New York’s premier cultural institutions. On Tuesday evening, Clifford Owens and Mickalene Thomas speak at MoMA and Israeli artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana speaks at the Guggenheim. If you can’t make it, both are a part of ongoing lecture series, so be sure to check the museum calendars. At the New Museum, Raed Yassin will perform a ‘multimedia saga’ using footage from Egyptian B-movies and vintage Arabian Pop LPs. All day Sunday, MoMA PS1 celebrates the opening of its Henry Taylor and Darren Bader exhibitions with lectures, readings, and food from the critically-acclaimed restaurant M. Wells.

The biennial continues to grow in popularity this year with just about every corner of the world dabbling in some form of the genre. This year’s bumper crop once again hopes to sidestep accusations of myopic curatorial decisions with an eye set on paradigmatic shifts in artistic practice which subvert the institution itself.

Adding live animals to the directory of Duchampian “ready-mades,” artist Darren Bader pulls together disparate objects (and creatures) in a gesture ultimately questioning where the producer, consumer, and intermediary lie.

With Brooklyn a byword for artist studios and emerging artists, the Brooklyn Museum is uniquely positioned to introduce visitors to the latest work coming out of the borough, alongside a collection spanning Egyptian antiquities to American and contemporary art. In a return to the spirit of past initiatives like the Working in Brooklyn exhibitions and 2004’s two-hundred-artist Open House, the Brooklyn Museum’s Raw/Cooked is a year-long series of five solo shows by emerging artists.

Although street art is normally meant to disrupt or impose, garnering meaning as a symbol of transgression, multi-media artist Swoon treats her public cut-paper wheat-pastes as objects collaborating with their environs. Straddling not only the boundary between fine artist and street artist, she also dabbles in the intersection of activism and art.