Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Mellowing

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Last Book Sale

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Clothes that Make the Man

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Image in the 21st Century

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Gogh!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Giant Steps

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Wall Flowers

Lives in Limbo

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Catastrophe Guru

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture