Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Last Book Sale

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Great Mellowing

What Will Become of the Library?

The Image in the 21st Century

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

No Gogh!

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Lives in Limbo

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Wall Flowers

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Catastrophe Guru

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Giant Steps

Robert Irwin in Marfa

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu