Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Mellowing

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Welcome to Texas, Elon

No Gogh!

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Wall Flowers

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Giant Steps

At Home in the World (Prince Varughese Thomas)

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Library?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Lives in Limbo

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Image in the 21st Century

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Last Book Sale

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters