Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What Will Become of the Library?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Dario Robleto artist profile

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Lives in Limbo

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Wall Flowers

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Last Book Sale

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

No Gogh!

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

The Great Mellowing

Giant Steps

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Image in the 21st Century

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Catastrophe Guru

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar