Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Wall Flowers

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Giant Steps

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Lives in Limbo

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

Dario Robleto artist profile

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Great Mellowing

The Catastrophe Guru

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Library?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

The Image in the 21st Century

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor