Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Lives in Limbo

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Giant Steps

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No Gogh!

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

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

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Library?

The Catastrophe Guru

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Last Book Sale

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Image in the 21st Century

Wall Flowers

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”