Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No Gogh!

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Mellowing

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Image in the 21st Century

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Lives in Limbo

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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?

What Will Become of the Library?

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Catastrophe Guru

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Unveiling “Austin”

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Wall Flowers

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale