Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What Will Become of the Library?

The Catastrophe Guru

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Lives in Limbo

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

No Gogh!

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Great Mellowing

Unveiling “Austin”

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Giant Steps

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Wall Flowers

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

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)