Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

No Gogh!

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

The Great Mellowing

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Unveiling “Austin”

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Last Book Sale

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Lives in Limbo

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Giant Steps

The Wonderful World of Bluth

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Library?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Wall Flowers

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

The Catastrophe Guru

The Image in the 21st Century

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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