Christopher French

Olafur Eliasson seems to have been everywhere of late, using elemental forces and state changes (light to heat, wet to dry, water to vapor) to create boisterous installations that turn…

Artist and writer Christopher French interviewed Helfenstein at his Menil office on February 5, 2004.

At first glance from a distance, Tara Donovan’s aptly titled installation appears to be nothing more than a slightly bulbous, cotton candy cloudscape intent on avoiding definition.

The Museum of Modern Art is a one-of-a kind institution, but it has always had two faces.

For all their physicality, Ken Little’s newest sculptures project a fragile monumentality.

James Rosenquist, as portrayed in the retrospective exhibited jointly at the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a remarkably uneven artist.

Matthew Barney’s Cremaster series finale is a three-hour epic that will make you grit your teeth and drop your jaw — often in quick succession.

I saw Matthew Barney’s Guggenheim survey before I was able to take in the "A" and "B" sides of Dario Robleto’s current show at Inman Gallery.

Most collection shows chart a succession of iconic masterpieces. Selected by dint of size or reputation, they enforce a sort of cultural Stations of the Cross, with individual acts of…

H. C. Westermann’s life was a flamboyant bundle of contradictions, and his art is full of his life. “Every drawing I make is a portrait,” he said, and his imagination…

Two contradictory visions inform Roxy Paine/Second Nature.

The marriage of obsessive craft to rote form in quilts usually sends me screaming from the room. Why then have I been back to see The Quilts of Gee’s Bend…

1. You’ve been director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for twenty years. What is it about Houston that keeps you here? The thing that I like most about…

1. Tell me how you came to be director of Rice Art Gallery. I had been at the Wadsworth Athenaeum as associate curator of contemporary art a little over three…