Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Unveiling “Austin”

No Gogh!

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Catastrophe Guru

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

Giant Steps

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Robert Irwin in Marfa

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

The Great Mellowing

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Wall Flowers

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Lives in Limbo

The Image in the 21st Century

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Library?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Dario Robleto artist profile