Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Catastrophe Guru

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Lives in Limbo

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Image in the 21st Century

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

The Last Book Sale

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No Gogh!

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

The Great Mellowing

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Library?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Giant Steps

Wall Flowers

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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