Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

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Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No Gogh!

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Mellowing

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Last Book Sale

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Catastrophe Guru

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Image in the 21st Century

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Wall Flowers

Giant Steps

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Unveiling “Austin”

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Lives in Limbo

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard