Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Catastrophe Guru

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Lives in Limbo

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

No Gogh!

Wall Flowers

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

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

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

The Image in the 21st Century

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Library?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Great Mellowing

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Giant Steps

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?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Last Book Sale

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure