Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

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Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Unveiling “Austin”

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

What Will Become of the Library?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Wonderful World of Bluth

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Great Mellowing

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Image in the 21st Century

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Catastrophe Guru

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

No Gogh!

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Giant Steps

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers