Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Lives in Limbo

Dario Robleto artist profile

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Mellowing

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Wall Flowers

The Image in the 21st Century

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Last Book Sale

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Library?

Giant Steps

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor