Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Wall Flowers

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

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No Gogh!

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Last Book Sale

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Dario Robleto artist profile

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Great Mellowing

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Lives in Limbo

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Image in the 21st Century

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Unveiling “Austin”

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Catastrophe Guru

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Giant Steps