Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Unveiling “Austin”

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

Giant Steps

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Last Book Sale

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Image in the 21st Century

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Great Mellowing

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Lives in Limbo

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Dario Robleto artist profile

Wall Flowers

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No Gogh!