Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

No Gogh!

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Mellowing

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Will Become of the Library?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Wall Flowers

The Clothes that Make the Man

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Image in the 21st Century

Giant Steps

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

Lives in Limbo

The Wonderful World of Bluth

“Trapped” in the Limelight

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50