Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Lives in Limbo

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Mellowing

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Image in the 21st Century

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Giant Steps

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Catastrophe Guru

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

The Last Book Sale

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Wall Flowers

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

No Gogh!