Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Last Book Sale

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What Will Become of the Library?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Lives in Limbo

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Great Mellowing

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Unveiling “Austin”

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

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

The Image in the 21st Century

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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