Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Lives in Limbo

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Mellowing

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Catastrophe Guru

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

The Last Book Sale

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Library?

No Gogh!

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Wall Flowers

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Unveiling “Austin”

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Giant Steps

The Clothes that Make the Man

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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