Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Image in the 21st Century

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Giant Steps

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Mellowing

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Lives in Limbo

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No Gogh!

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Unveiling “Austin”

Wall Flowers