Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Image in the 21st Century

“Trapped” in the Limelight

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Last Book Sale

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Wall Flowers

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Wonderful World of Bluth

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No Gogh!

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Catastrophe Guru

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

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

The Great Mellowing

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Lives in Limbo

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

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What Will Become of the Library?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure