Michael Agresta – words & ideas

I write about art, ideas, culture, and

Portfolio

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

How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

At Age 86, Painter Roger Winter Is Still Reinventing Himself

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cults

Pacific Standard

Giant Steps

Welcome to Texas, Elon

Trenton Doyle Hancock: His Pet Monsters

The Clothes that Make the Man

The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

What Will Become of the Library?

The Wonderful World of Bluth

The Catastrophe Guru

Dario Robleto artist profile

No Gogh!

Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

The Last Book Sale

Life During Wartime (book review)

LA Review of Books

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

The Steve Jobs of West Texas

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

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

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?

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online.

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

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

Robert Pruitt: Wards Matter

Illustrating Border Life for the Next Generation

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

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0

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

How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

Wall Flowers

Unveiling “Austin”

Mark Rothko, Houston’s Absent Son

The Image in the 21st Century

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

The Great Mellowing

Robert Irwin in Marfa

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

Cult or Cure? (MDMA and PTSD)

What Is the Greatest Artwork in Texas?

Lives in Limbo

The Great Texas Novel about the Spanish Flu

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

Vincent Valdez: The Big Picture

“Trapped” in the Limelight

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

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

A Bigger Canvas (Houston Feature)

Travel & Leisure

A Tree Grows in San Antonio (Margarita Cabrera)

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

100 Ways to Draw a Line (Transborder Biennial)