Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Wall Flowers

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Giant Steps

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Lives in Limbo

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

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

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Last Book Sale

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

No Gogh!

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Irwin in Marfa

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What Will Become of the Library?

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Mellowing

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment