Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Lives in Limbo

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Catastrophe Guru

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Unveiling “Austin”

Wall Flowers

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

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Giant Steps

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Dario Robleto artist profile

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Mellowing

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Will Become of the Library?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

No Gogh!