Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

No Gogh!

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

The Image in the 21st Century

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Mellowing

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Lives in Limbo

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

The Last Book Sale

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Giant Steps

Unveiling “Austin”

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

What Will Become of the Library?

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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

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

The Catastrophe Guru

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Dario Robleto artist profile