Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

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

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

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

The Catastrophe Guru

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

Wall Flowers

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Lives in Limbo

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

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

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

“Trapped” in the Limelight

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Wonderful World of Bluth

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

The Clothes that Make the Man

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

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

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

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

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

The Image in the 21st Century

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

The Last Book Sale

What Will Become of the Library?

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

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

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

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

Robert Irwin in Marfa

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

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

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

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Unveiling “Austin”

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Giant Steps

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

The Great Mellowing