Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Wall Flowers

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No Gogh!

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Library?

The Catastrophe Guru

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

“Trapped” in the Limelight

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Image in the 21st Century

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Lives in Limbo

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Mellowing

Giant Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile