Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Unveiling “Austin”

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

No Gogh!

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Library?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Giant Steps

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

The Catastrophe Guru

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Mellowing

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Wall Flowers

The Image in the 21st Century

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Lives in Limbo

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Wonderful World of Bluth

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation