Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Lives in Limbo

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Wall Flowers

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Mellowing

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Wonderful World of Bluth

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Unveiling “Austin”

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Giant Steps

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No Gogh!

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Image in the 21st Century

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

The Last Book Sale

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?