Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Unveiling “Austin”

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Lives in Limbo

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Great Mellowing

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Wall Flowers

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Image in the 21st Century

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

What Will Become of the Library?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Wonderful World of Bluth

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Last Book Sale

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0