Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Unveiling “Austin”

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Catastrophe Guru

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Last Book Sale

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon

No Gogh!

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Will Become of the Library?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Lives in Limbo

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Great Mellowing

Giant Steps

Wall Flowers