Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

What Will Become of the Library?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Giant Steps

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Catastrophe Guru

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Mellowing

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Last Book Sale

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Unveiling “Austin”

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Lives in Limbo

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

No Gogh!