Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

What Will Become of the Library?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Image in the 21st Century

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Dario Robleto artist profile

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Last Book Sale

The Clothes that Make the Man

Giant Steps

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

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Unveiling “Austin”

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Lives in Limbo

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No Gogh!