Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Lives in Limbo

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

Wall Flowers

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Great Mellowing

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Giant Steps

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Gogh!

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Library?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Unveiling “Austin”

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Image in the 21st Century

The Last Book Sale

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?