Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Clothes that Make the Man

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Lives in Limbo

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Image in the 21st Century

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

The Last Book Sale

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No Gogh!

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

Wall Flowers

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Mellowing

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Steve Jobs of West Texas