Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

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

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

No Gogh!

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Giant Steps

What Will Become of the Library?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Lives in Limbo

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Last Book Sale

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Clothes that Make the Man

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Catastrophe Guru

Wall Flowers