Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No Gogh!

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

What Will Become of the Library?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Catastrophe Guru

Giant Steps

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Image in the 21st Century

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Great Mellowing

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Wall Flowers

Unveiling “Austin”

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

At Home in the World (Prince Varughese Thomas)

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself