Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Last Book Sale

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

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

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

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

The Great Mellowing

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Unveiling “Austin”

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Lives in Limbo

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Library?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

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

No Gogh!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Catastrophe Guru

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Wall Flowers

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Giant Steps

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Robert Irwin in Marfa