Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Library?

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Image in the 21st Century

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Catastrophe Guru

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Lives in Limbo

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Last Book Sale

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

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Wall Flowers

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

No Gogh!

Giant Steps

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Mellowing

Unveiling “Austin”

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor