Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Giant Steps

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

No Gogh!

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

“Trapped” in the Limelight

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Unveiling “Austin”

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

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

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Dario Robleto artist profile

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Great Mellowing

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

The Image in the 21st Century

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Lives in Limbo

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Last Book Sale

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Wall Flowers

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu