Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Wall Flowers

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

No Gogh!

Unveiling “Austin”

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Clothes that Make the Man

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Giant Steps

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Catastrophe Guru

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Lives in Limbo

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Last Book Sale

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Great Mellowing

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Image in the 21st Century

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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