Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Great Mellowing

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Wall Flowers

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No Gogh!

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Giant Steps

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Library?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Lives in Limbo

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Image in the 21st Century

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)