Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Wall Flowers

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

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No Gogh!

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Lives in Limbo

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Unveiling “Austin”

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Giant Steps

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Last Book Sale

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books