Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Image in the 21st Century

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Lives in Limbo

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

The Last Book Sale

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Clothes that Make the Man

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Wall Flowers

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Catastrophe Guru

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Irwin in Marfa

No Gogh!

The Great Mellowing

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?