Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Great Mellowing

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Giant Steps

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Clothes that Make the Man

Unveiling “Austin”

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Will Become of the Library?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Lives in Limbo

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Catastrophe Guru

Wall Flowers

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No Gogh!

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

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