Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Unveiling “Austin”

No Gogh!

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

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

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Giant Steps

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Great Mellowing

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Image in the 21st Century

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Welcome to Texas, Elon