Writer @TexasMonthly, @TexasObserver, Slate, Atlantic, Wired, T+L, WSJ. Teacher @StanfordCSP. I read, much of the night, and go north in the summer.
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My latest for @texasmonthly on one of the most viral Mexican art events in recent memory, and what the artist has in store this week in San Antonio.
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My latest for the magazine
With his weathered Hasselblad, Dan Winters has shot portraits of convicts, rock stars, and David Foster Wallace. 📸 texasmonthly.com/culture/dan…
I am now welcoming your anonymous thoughts and feedback, ideally constructive but if not okay, on anything about me at admonymous.co/mike-agresta
My latest for Texas Monthly is featured in Hyperallergic’s weekly Required Reading: hyperallergic.com/required-r…
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Inside John Dilandro's House of Lights you'll find hundreds of garden ornaments, religious figurines, gas station signs, weather vanes, license plates, trophies, and especially old-style, glass telephone insulators assorted in hodgepodge constellations. texasmonthly.com/culture/out…
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On this day in 1933, author Cormac McCarthy was born.
In 2023, a few Texas writers reflect on what McCarthy meant to them and to the state. Read here: texasmonthly.com/arts-entert…
My latest art story from deep, almost too deep, in the heart of Texas. A sign out front says: "Welcome to look. Watch for rattlesnakes." There's a horror barn, graves for unknown cowboys, and a huge fire-ant nest decorated with dinosaurs (called "Jurassic Park"). Worth the trip.
On family land in rural Guadalupe County, John Dilandro fires cannons, mingles with snakes, and turns his past into a folk art shrine. ✨🐍 texasmonthly.com/culture/out…
Here’s my latest for @TexasMonthly, on a compelling photography project capturing extraction-industry landscapes on the drive from Midland to Odessa.
My latest for @TexasMonthly is this review of the SNL exhibition drawn from Lorne Michaels's personal archive at the HRC in Austin.
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Included: How the "dick in a box" fits next to the Gutenberg Bible, what makes a show like this more than a memorabilia tour, and some pretty serious omissions in how the HRC deals with the original Sinead O'Connor pope photo (whose is it???)
My latest for @TexasMonthly is on newly discovered biographical details about Rauschenberg forcing a rethinking of his approach to materials and his relationship to his home state. Nice work by @MenilCollection on both the research and the beautiful show.
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I reviewed this underrated gem of a first novel by a key figure in the Texas literary landscape. Check it out!
New from @magresta: José Skinner’s The Search Committee paints, scene by scene, a rich regional landscape as the story twists and turns through this new, fast-paced satire of Texas academia at the border. texasobserver.org/the-search…
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New from @magresta: José Skinner’s The Search Committee paints, scene by scene, a rich regional landscape as the story twists and turns through this new, fast-paced satire of Texas academia at the border. texasobserver.org/the-search…
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It was a police-led art heist. The target: Some of the most controversial, but best-studied and most-discussed works in U.S. contemporary art. texasobserver.org/fort-worth…
The Excellence in Writing award was for the May 2024 issue, which includes a profile I wrote.
.@TexasMonthly took home eight awards—more than any other publication—at the City and Regional Magazine Association conference in Denver last week, including Excellence in Writing and Designer of the Year. 🏆texasmonthly.com/press-room/…
