Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Library?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Catastrophe Guru

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

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

The Last Book Sale

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Wall Flowers

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Lives in Limbo