Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

Wall Flowers

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Image in the 21st Century

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Unveiling “Austin”

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Great Mellowing

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Robert Irwin in Marfa

What Will Become of the Library?

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

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

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Catastrophe Guru

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Lives in Limbo

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Dario Robleto artist profile

Giant Steps