Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Giant Steps

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Lives in Limbo

The Image in the 21st Century

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Will Become of the Library?

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

The Great Mellowing

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Wall Flowers

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Catastrophe Guru

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Unveiling “Austin”

The Last Book Sale

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

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

No Gogh!

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?