Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Wall Flowers

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Last Book Sale

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Lives in Limbo

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Unveiling “Austin”

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Giant Steps

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What Will Become of the Library?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Catastrophe Guru

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

No Gogh!

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Image in the 21st Century

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Great Mellowing