“How to Work Better” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, surveys three decades of collaboration Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose sculptures, photos and videos deftly combine absurdity and high seriousness, cleverness and existential angst.

Treating letters as both semantic elements and pictorial forms, poet Robert Grenier suggests a parallel between deciphering language and deciphering the sensory experiences that precede verbal formulation.

Describing himself as “uncoordinated and tone-deaf,” Yeh relates how—as an instrumentalist, vocalist, producer, music packager and videomaker—he has created a high-energy sound-and-image art meant for audiences open to radical experimentation.