Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

Dario Robleto artist profile

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Last Book Sale

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Unveiling “Austin”

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Great Mellowing

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

Wall Flowers

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Clothes that Make the Man

Lives in Limbo

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Catastrophe Guru

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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