Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Last Book Sale

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

EAST Austin Is Over. What’s Next for an Art Scene That’s Losing Its Nucleus?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Giant Steps

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Lives in Limbo

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

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

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

The Image in the 21st Century

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Library?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No Gogh!

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Unveiling “Austin”

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The ‘Moby Dick’ of Texas Football Novels Is Hard-hitting as Ever

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

While We Were Sleeping: The Feds Say a Price-fixing Scheme Costs Texas Patients Tens of Millions

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Catastrophe Guru

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Has a San Antonio Inventor Solved a Problem of Small-scale Wind Power?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Great Mellowing

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile