Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

No Gogh!

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Image in the 21st Century

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Library?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Unveiling “Austin”

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Giant Steps

Wall Flowers

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Lives in Limbo

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Mellowing

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge