Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Unveiling “Austin”

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Library?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Catastrophe Guru

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Mellowing

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Lives in Limbo

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Wall Flowers

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

No Gogh!

The Last Book Sale

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Giant Steps

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Dario Robleto artist profile

Bonnie and Clyde at 50