Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Giant Steps

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Lives in Limbo

No Gogh!

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Last Book Sale

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Wall Flowers

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor