Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Clothes that Make the Man

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Dario Robleto artist profile

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Mellowing

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

No Gogh!

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Lives in Limbo

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Wall Flowers

The Image in the 21st Century

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

The Last Book Sale

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Giant Steps

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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