Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Lives in Limbo

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

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

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Irwin in Marfa

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

The Last Book Sale

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Library?

The Clothes that Make the Man

Giant Steps

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Great Mellowing

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself