Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

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Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Will Become of the Library?

The Last Book Sale

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Dario Robleto artist profile

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Great Mellowing

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Image in the 21st Century

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Wall Flowers

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Clothes that Make the Man

Giant Steps

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

Lives in Limbo

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Unveiling “Austin”

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No Gogh!

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu