Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Great Mellowing

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Library?

Giant Steps

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

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Clothes that Make the Man

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Image in the 21st Century

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Wall Flowers

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Lives in Limbo

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Unveiling “Austin”

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Last Book Sale

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

No Gogh!

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son