Internationally renowned artist John Alexander (’70) calls the first major retrospective of his work “a triumph that was 30 years in the making.” Alexander, in his New York studio, finishes “Ship of Fools” (2007), one of 61 oil paintings in the exhibit. On view through June 22 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the exhibit opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The installation, which also includes 36 works on paper, documents Alexander’s career from the late 1970s through 2007.