Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Last Book Sale

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Wall Flowers

Lives in Limbo

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Catastrophe Guru

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Image in the 21st Century

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Giant Steps

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

No Gogh!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Great Mellowing

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Unveiling “Austin”

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas