Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Library?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Image in the 21st Century

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Giant Steps

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

The Great Mellowing

The Last Book Sale

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Wonderful World of Bluth

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Lives in Limbo

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

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

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

No Gogh!

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Wall Flowers

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Dario Robleto artist profile