Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Lives in Limbo

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Will Become of the Library?

Giant Steps

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Wall Flowers

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Last Book Sale

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Catastrophe Guru

The Image in the 21st Century

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

No Gogh!

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Steve Jobs of West Texas