Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Lives in Limbo

Wall Flowers

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Clothes that Make the Man

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Catastrophe Guru

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Image in the 21st Century

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Mellowing

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Dario Robleto artist profile

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Giant Steps

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Will Become of the Library?

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No Gogh!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

The Last Book Sale

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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