Michael Ennis

WEBSITE

michaelbennis.wordpress.com

Michael Ennis has been a regular contributor to Texas Monthly since 1977. He is the New York Times best-selling author of the historical novels The Malice of Fortune, Duchess of Milan, and Byzantium, which have been published worldwide. He earned his degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley; taught art history at the University of Texas, Austin; and is a former John D. Rockefeller III Foundation Fellow. His nonfiction writing, on subjects ranging from military preparedness and national politics to art and architecture, has won several national awards; been included in the curriculum of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; and has been published in a number of books and anthologies as well as magazines such as Esquire, ARTnews, and Architectural Digest.

Stories

Rauschenberg Relics

In the current Rauschenberg exhibit at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum the artist finds his first thirty years a tough act to follow.

By Michael Ennis
Feb 1986
Post-Modern Times

In a Twilight Zone-like pocket near UT there are some kids who aren’t ready to grow up.

By Michael Ennis
Feb 1986
Post-Modern Times

Christian recording mogul Chris Christian knows what the Rock of Ages really means.

By Michael Ennis
Dec 1985
Post-Modern Times

NorthPark Mall inaugurated an epoch twenty years ago. It’s still the standard for upscale shopping.

By Michael Ennis
Nov 1985
Post-Modern Times

Today’s with-it seniors are settling in American’s newest retirement boomtown—Kerrville.

By Michael Ennis
Oct 1985
Post-Modern Times
By Michael Ennis
Sep 1985
A Concrete Romance

One man’s whim-turned-obsession is changing Houston’s McKee Street Bridge and its faded environs into one of the few really original artistic images of the city.

By Michael Ennis
Aug 1985
Post-Modern Times

Triathletes converge upon Lake Lavon to compete in the sport of the eighties.

By Michael Ennis
Aug 1985
The Golden Age of Apples and Oranges

The Kimbell’s exhibit of seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes is dazzling enough to cause a modern photo-realist to look again.

By Michael Ennis
Jul 1985
Post-Modern Times

Sitcom City on Channel 27

By Michael Ennis
Jul 1985
Public Gestures

Dallas' Fifth Texas Sculpture Symposium proves it's time for us to look to our sculptors for public artworks.

By Michael Ennis
May 1985
Persistent Vigor

The impressive canvases that make up “Fresh Paint” at the Museum of Fine Arts prove that Houston has finally arrived as a significant art-making center.

By Michael Ennis
Mar 1985
Sterling Surls

With his rough-hewn sculptures that speak to mankind’s most basic needs, James Surls is fast becoming the dean of Texas art.

By Michael Ennis
Feb 1985
Trevino’s Mother

Whistler had nothing on the 22 artists represented in a survey of Hispanic art.

By Michael Ennis
Nov 1984
Texas Primer: The Rich Girl

From lacquered debutante to fossilized ol’ gal, her greatest virtue is endurance.

By Michael Ennis
Oct 1984

Pages