Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Library?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Lives in Limbo

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Catastrophe Guru

The Image in the 21st Century

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Wall Flowers

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Mellowing

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

No Gogh!

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Giant Steps

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

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