Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

The Image in the 21st Century

Giant Steps

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

“Trapped” in the Limelight

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

No Gogh!

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Catastrophe Guru

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Wall Flowers

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Great Mellowing

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50