Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Catastrophe Guru

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Giant Steps

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Image in the 21st Century

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Wall Flowers

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No Gogh!

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Lives in Limbo

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Great Mellowing

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box