Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Giant Steps

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Last Book Sale

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Lives in Limbo

Welcome to Texas, Elon

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Unveiling “Austin”

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Great Mellowing

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

Wall Flowers

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Library?

Dario Robleto artist profile

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Image in the 21st Century

The Catastrophe Guru

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box