Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Lives in Limbo

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

No Gogh!

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Image in the 21st Century

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Wall Flowers

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

Giant Steps

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Great Mellowing

Dario Robleto artist profile

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

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

What Will Become of the Library?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Irwin in Marfa

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)