Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Will Become of the Library?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No Gogh!

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Wall Flowers

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Last Book Sale

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Lives in Limbo

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Giant Steps

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

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Great Mellowing

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Unveiling “Austin”

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Steve Jobs of West Texas