Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Wall Flowers

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Unveiling “Austin”

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Houston’s National Women’s Conference, 40 Years Later

Luz Maria Sanchez: Narco Violence, as Seen by a Journalist-Turned-Artist

Houston Photo Exhibit Documents First Markers of Modern U.S.-Mexico Border

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Sedrick Huckaby Looks His Subjects in the Eye, from Dreamers to an Ex-President

At Home in the World (Prince Varughese Thomas)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The People’s Champion (Vincent Valdez’s ‘Dream Baby Dream’)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

No Gogh!

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Mellowing

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Catastrophe Guru

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Psychedelic State of South Texas (Fernando A. Flores)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Last Book Sale

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What Will Become of the Library?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

German-born Artist Doerte Weber Builds ‘Checkpoint Carlos’ on the Rio Grande

The Clothes that Make the Man

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Brutally Suppressed in Her Lifetime, Gertrude Beasley Is Finally on Our Bookshelves

Did Texas Blackouts Reveal Austin’s New Real-Estate Hot Spots?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Sign of Trump’s “Millions” of Illegal Voters in Texas