Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Great Mellowing

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

“Trapped” in the Limelight

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Catastrophe Guru

Lives in Limbo

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Giant Steps

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Last Book Sale

Unveiling “Austin”

Wall Flowers

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Dario Robleto artist profile

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Clothes that Make the Man

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

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