Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Dario Robleto artist profile

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Giant Steps

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Last Book Sale

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Wall Flowers

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Catastrophe Guru

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Lives in Limbo

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