Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

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

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Clothes that Make the Man

Wall Flowers

The Great Mellowing

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

Unveiling “Austin”

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

No Gogh!

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Giant Steps

Lives in Limbo

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?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Last Book Sale

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth