Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Lives in Limbo

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Last Book Sale

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Great Mellowing

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Unveiling “Austin”

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Giant Steps

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No Gogh!

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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