Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Giant Steps

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Clothes that Make the Man

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

“Trapped” in the Limelight

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Image in the 21st Century

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Wall Flowers

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Dario Robleto artist profile

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Great Mellowing

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Catastrophe Guru

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Lives in Limbo

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Last Book Sale

Unveiling “Austin”

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

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

No Gogh!

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

What Will Become of the Library?