The Albanian-born, Paris-based video artist, currently the subject of an exhibition at the New Museum, New York, reflects on the importance of syncopation—musical, visual and sociopolitical—in his life and work.

“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.