Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Lives in Limbo

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

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

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Giant Steps

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

What Will Become of the Library?

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Image in the 21st Century

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Great Mellowing

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

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

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Dario Robleto artist profile

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Last Book Sale

No Gogh!

Wall Flowers

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

Unveiling “Austin”

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box