Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

What Will Become of the Library?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Mellowing

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Catastrophe Guru

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Last Book Sale

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Wall Flowers

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

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Clothes that Make the Man

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Lives in Limbo

No Gogh!

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0