Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Wall Flowers

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Unveiling “Austin”

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

The Last Book Sale

The Great Mellowing

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

No Gogh!

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

Lives in Limbo

Giant Steps

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Catastrophe Guru

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters