Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Lives in Limbo

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

At Home in the World (Prince Varughese Thomas)

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Mellowing

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Wall Flowers

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No Gogh!

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

Giant Steps