Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

The Last Book Sale

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Giant Steps

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

No Gogh!

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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 Image in the 21st Century

The Catastrophe Guru

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Will Become of the Library?

Wall Flowers

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Lives in Limbo

The Great Mellowing

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince