Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Last Book Sale

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Giant Steps

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

No Gogh!

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Wall Flowers

The Catastrophe Guru

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Will Become of the Library?

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

The Great Mellowing

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Image in the 21st Century

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Lives in Limbo

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Clothes that Make the Man

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Dario Robleto artist profile