Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Lives in Limbo

What Will Become of the Library?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

The Catastrophe Guru

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Clothes that Make the Man

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Dario Robleto artist profile

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Giant Steps

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

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Wall Flowers

Welcome to Texas, Elon

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No Gogh!

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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?

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Unveiling “Austin”

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Great Mellowing