Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Clothes that Make the Man

Dario Robleto artist profile

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

No Gogh!

Wall Flowers

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Lives in Limbo

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Catastrophe Guru

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Last Book Sale

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Great Mellowing

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Giant Steps

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box