Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Unveiling “Austin”

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

Wall Flowers

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Image in the 21st Century

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

No Gogh!

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Giant Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Last Book Sale

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

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

Lives in Limbo

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas