Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Catastrophe Guru

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Wall Flowers

Lives in Limbo

Unveiling “Austin”

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Image in the 21st Century

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

The Last Book Sale

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Will Become of the Library?

The Great Mellowing

Giant Steps

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

No Gogh!

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince