Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

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Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Unveiling “Austin”

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Robert Irwin in Marfa

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Library?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Lives in Limbo

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Clothes that Make the Man

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Catastrophe Guru

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Wall Flowers

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Last Book Sale

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Giant Steps

The Great Mellowing

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard