Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Image in the 21st Century

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Lives in Limbo

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

No Gogh!

The Great Mellowing

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

The Last Book Sale

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Giant Steps

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Wall Flowers

Unveiling “Austin”

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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