Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Unveiling “Austin”

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Catastrophe Guru

The Great Mellowing

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No Gogh!

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

The Clothes that Make the Man

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Image in the 21st Century

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

What Will Become of the Library?

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Dario Robleto artist profile

Lives in Limbo

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Giant Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Wall Flowers

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

“Trapped” in the Limelight