Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

The Great Mellowing

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

Lives in Limbo

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Wall Flowers

Giant Steps

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

The Last Book Sale

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Image in the 21st Century

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

What Will Become of the Library?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor