
Attracting so many tech companies and workers from California isn’t going to transform the city into another San Francisco—for both the better and worse.
Jan 3, 2021 — By Michael Agresta
Attracting so many tech companies and workers from California isn’t going to transform the city into another San Francisco—for both the better and worse.
Dec 17, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX says he’s relocating to the Lone Star State. But which of our tech hubs is the best fit for the eccentric billionaire?
Nov 23, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
Once one of Texas’s most prominent artists, Winter was known for depicting idyllic rural scenes and the good life in Dallas. But his later, more experimental work is just as interesting.
Oct 20, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
After the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and three other museums delayed a retrospective of the painter Philip Guston, who used KKK imagery in his work, Texas art voices weigh in on the controversy.
May 22, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
On Saturday, it'll become the first major art museum in the nation to welcome back the public.
Apr 28, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
Some of Fusebox Festival’s most poignant moments came when performers stopped trying to put on a show, and instead simply bared their souls about the present predicament.
Apr 1, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
From theater to opera, Texas culture has moved toward virtual events.
Mar 24, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ tells the tale of a pandemic she barely survived.
Feb 10, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
Installation artist Mark Dion displays his findings in a tongue-in-cheek Fort Worth museum exhibition.
Jan 17, 2020 — By Michael Agresta
El Paso-born playwright Octavio Solis’s 'Quixote Nuevo' rides into Houston’s Alley Theatre this month.
Nov 20, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
Solange Pessoa’s new exhibition at Ballroom Marfa, 'Longilonge,' is rooted in archaeology and human psychology.
Nov 13, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive 'Border Tuner' is visible this month from both cities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sep 18, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
Years after the late Linda Pace first shared her vision with rockstar architect Sir David Adjaye, the art museum is set to open in October.
Aug 20, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
Artistic director Rob Melrose ushers in a new era for the storied institution with the upcoming fall season, from Shakespeare to Octavio Solis.
Apr 24, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, ’Tears of the Trufflepig,’ is an exhilarating borderland dystopia.
Mar 22, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
The artist's collaborative creation, like her other work, is deeply rooted in the communities she works with.
Feb 22, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
As government land seizures roil the Valley, a German-born artist points to stark historical parallels.
Feb 7, 2019 — By Michael Agresta
Ruby City, Adjaye’s first building in Texas, is the vision of the late Linda Pace, and will house her personal collection.
Oct 10, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
Our lack of a voter-verified paper trail and contingency planning make us vulnerable, says Rice University’s Dan Wallach.
Sep 26, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
An exhibition on police brutality prompts allegations, shutdown after curator is dismissed.
Aug 24, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
The first two installments of Vincent Valdez’s The Beginning Is Near trilogy—on view now in Austin and Houston, respectively—paint a picture of a fight for America’s soul.
Apr 18, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
How Hollywood came to 1950s Texas with a message of change and emerged with an enigmatic legend.
Apr 12, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
Morton, renowned eco-philosopher and co-curator of a new art exhibit at Ballroom Marfa, sees global warming as a new beginning, not an end.
Feb 15, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
The debut of a destination showpiece on the University of Texas campus marks a turning point for the Capital City.
Jan 23, 2018 — By Michael Agresta
The 77-year-old Houston painter Jimmie Durham has made a career working with Indian themes that he says are drawn from his heritage. But what if he’s not who he says he is?
Dec 21, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
A Houston exhibition delves into the history of an obscure corner of Mexican popular culture.
Nov 19, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
Looking back at a crucial weekend seen as the high-water mark of the 1970s women’s movement
Oct 18, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
David Shelton Gallery presents new works by Alejandro Diaz in November.
Sep 29, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
The 2017 Texas Biennial offers work from Texans around the state and across the border.
Aug 23, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
How the more or less true story of two Texas outlaws revolutionized Hollywood.
Jul 24, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
Animator Don Bluth returns to his birthplace of El Paso.
Jul 7, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
The auteur behind summer art-house favorite 'A Ghost Story' on his abiding connection to his home city.
May 30, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
All around the state, counties with large non-citizen populations see no evidence of fraud in 2016.
Mar 27, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
A chat with Jim Magnuson, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Feb 1, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
'A Ghost Story' is a fable of loss and mortality starring Casey Affleck as a bedsheet-wearing apparition.
Jan 25, 2017 — By Michael Agresta
John Hanke, the creator of Pokémon Go, can trace most of his obsessions to a childhood spent in a small town half an hour southeast of Abilene.
Nov 23, 2016 — By Michael Agresta
Robert Pruitt’s art vividly portrays the lives and dreams of the people who have long called Houston’s rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods home.
Sep 21, 2016 — By Michael Agresta
Can the Texas Contemporary Art Fair turn Houston into a capital of Latin American art?
Jun 22, 2016 — By Michael Agresta
Robert Irwin’s long-awaited Marfa installation is a work like no other: a massive project that reflects the austere, light-filled beauty of West Texas.
Mar 23, 2015 — By Michael Agresta
Five days of hype, networking, and data collection at the Woodstock of apps.
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