Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Library?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Catastrophe Guru

Lives in Limbo

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Mellowing

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

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

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Unveiling “Austin”

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

Giant Steps

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Wall Flowers

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box