Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Clothes that Make the Man

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Lives in Limbo

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Giant Steps

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

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

The Image in the 21st Century

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Wall Flowers

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Last Book Sale

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Library?

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Great Mellowing

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

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

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box