Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Image in the 21st Century

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

No Gogh!

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Unveiling “Austin”

Wall Flowers

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Lives in Limbo

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

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

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

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

Giant Steps

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Welcome to Texas, Elon

What Will Become of the Library?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Catastrophe Guru

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

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

The Great Mellowing

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Clothes that Make the Man

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Last Book Sale

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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