Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Giant Steps

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

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

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What Will Become of the Library?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Last Book Sale

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Wall Flowers

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Image in the 21st Century

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

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

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Catastrophe Guru

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Unveiling “Austin”

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

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

The Clothes that Make the Man

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

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Lives in Limbo

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

No Gogh!

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Dario Robleto artist profile

The Great Mellowing

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

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