Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Wall Flowers

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Giant Steps

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

No Gogh!

The Great Mellowing

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Last Book Sale

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Catastrophe Guru

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Unveiling “Austin”

Lives in Limbo

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa