Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Last Book Sale

Wall Flowers

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

No Gogh!

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Unveiling “Austin”

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Catastrophe Guru

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Image in the 21st Century

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Mellowing

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Clothes that Make the Man

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Giant Steps

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Lives in Limbo

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

“Trapped” in the Limelight