Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Lives in Limbo

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Film Reviews and Local Arts Coverage

Austin Chronicle

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Unveiling “Austin”

Wall Flowers

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Giant Steps

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Clothes that Make the Man

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Great Mellowing

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Last Book Sale

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

No Gogh!

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Image in the 21st Century