Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Lives in Limbo

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Mellowing

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Unveiling “Austin”

The Catastrophe Guru

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Clothes that Make the Man

Giant Steps

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

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

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

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

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

No Gogh!

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

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

Wall Flowers

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Image in the 21st Century

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Welcome to Texas, Elon

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)