Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Lives in Limbo

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Great Mellowing

Wall Flowers

The Last Book Sale

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Dario Robleto artist profile

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Will Become of the Library?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Catastrophe Guru

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Robert Irwin in Marfa