Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Mellowing

The Catastrophe Guru

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Library?

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Unveiling “Austin”

The Wonderful World of Bluth

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Image in the 21st Century

The Last Book Sale

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Wall Flowers

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

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

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

Lives in Limbo

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Giant Steps

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Gogh!

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)