Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)

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

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

The Image in the 21st Century

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

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Great Mellowing

The Clothes that Make the Man

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

Dario Robleto artist profile

“Trapped” in the Limelight

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

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

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

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

Welcome to Texas, Elon

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

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

What Will Become of the Library?

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

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

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Catastrophe Guru

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

Lives in Limbo

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

The Last Book Sale

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Unveiling “Austin”

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

Giant Steps

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

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Robert Irwin in Marfa

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Wall Flowers

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

No Gogh!

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

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

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)