Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Welcome to Texas, Elon

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

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

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

No Gogh!

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

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

Unveiling “Austin”

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

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Catastrophe Guru

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Wonderful World of Bluth

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Giant Steps

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

The Last Book Sale

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

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

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

What Will Become of the Library?

Wall Flowers

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

Lives in Limbo

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

The Great Mellowing

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

The Image in the 21st Century

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Dario Robleto artist profile

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

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