Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

Lives in Limbo

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

Giant Steps

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Wall Flowers

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Catastrophe Guru

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

No Gogh!

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Library?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Image in the 21st Century

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself