Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Unveiling “Austin”

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Will Become of the Library?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Wall Flowers

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No Gogh!

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Catastrophe Guru

Dario Robleto artist profile

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

Lives in Limbo

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Great Mellowing

Giant Steps

The Last Book Sale

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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