Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Will Become of the Library?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

No Gogh!

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

The Last Book Sale

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Giant Steps

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Great Mellowing

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Lives in Limbo

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Image in the 21st Century

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Unveiling “Austin”

Wall Flowers

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Clothes that Make the Man

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