Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Image in the 21st Century

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Lives in Limbo

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Gogh!

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What Will Become of the Library?

Unveiling “Austin”

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Catastrophe Guru

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Wall Flowers

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Giant Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Mellowing

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince