Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

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

Lives in Limbo

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Wall Flowers

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Dario Robleto artist profile

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Mellowing

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Catastrophe Guru

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Last Book Sale

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Image in the 21st Century