Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

The Wonderful World of Bluth

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

The Catastrophe Guru

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What Will Become of the Library?

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

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

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

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Giant Steps

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Welcome to Texas, Elon

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Wall Flowers

No Gogh!

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Lives in Limbo

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Mellowing

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

The Image in the 21st Century

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge