Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No Gogh!

Unveiling “Austin”

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Last Book Sale

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Wall Flowers

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Great Mellowing

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Image in the 21st Century

The Catastrophe Guru

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Lives in Limbo

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

What Will Become of the Library?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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