Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Mellowing

The Catastrophe Guru

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Giant Steps

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Lives in Limbo

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

The Last Book Sale

Wall Flowers

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Dario Robleto artist profile

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Image in the 21st Century

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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