Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Wall Flowers

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Catastrophe Guru

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Last Book Sale

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Giant Steps

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Unveiling “Austin”

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Lives in Limbo

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Great Mellowing

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Wonderful World of Bluth