Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Welcome to Texas, Elon

“Trapped” in the Limelight

No Gogh!

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What Will Become of the Library?

Wall Flowers

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

The Catastrophe Guru

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Unveiling “Austin”

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Great Mellowing

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

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

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Lives in Limbo

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

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Giant Steps

Bonnie and Clyde at 50