Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

No Gogh!

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Giant Steps

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Unveiling “Austin”

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Catastrophe Guru

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Wall Flowers

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

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What Will Become of the Library?

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Dario Robleto artist profile

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Last Book Sale

Lives in Limbo

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Image in the 21st Century

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

The Great Mellowing

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

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