Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

The Last Book Sale

Lives in Limbo

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Catastrophe Guru

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Unveiling “Austin”

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Image in the 21st Century

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Mellowing

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Wall Flowers

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box