Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Library?

No Gogh!

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

The Last Book Sale

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Giant Steps

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Unveiling “Austin”

The Catastrophe Guru

The Image in the 21st Century

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Mellowing

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Lives in Limbo

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Wall Flowers

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation