Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Giant Steps

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

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

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Image in the 21st Century

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

No Gogh!

Lives in Limbo

Unveiling “Austin”

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

The Last Book Sale

Wall Flowers

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Great Mellowing

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What Will Become of the Library?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Catastrophe Guru