Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Last Book Sale

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Great Mellowing

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Lives in Limbo

Unveiling “Austin”

Giant Steps

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

Wall Flowers

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

No Gogh!

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru