Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Last Book Sale

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Image in the 21st Century

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

No Gogh!

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Unveiling “Austin”

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Great Mellowing

The Catastrophe Guru

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Wall Flowers

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Giant Steps

Lives in Limbo

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Clothes that Make the Man

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth