Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Image in the 21st Century

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Great Mellowing

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Lives in Limbo

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Wall Flowers

The Last Book Sale

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

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

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Wonderful World of Bluth

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Library?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Catastrophe Guru

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

No Gogh!

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.