Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Image in the 21st Century

Wall Flowers

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

Giant Steps

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Last Book Sale

Unveiling “Austin”

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

No Gogh!

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Lives in Limbo

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

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Great Mellowing